THE STUDY ON GENDER BIAS AMONG WORKING AND NON ?WORKING WOMEN

Millennium development goals highlight the priority accorded to gender Equality and women’s right as core issues of development. Achieving goals relating to Gender equality and gender empowerment are critical for achieving all the major MDGs. However, South Asian countries and India are societies with strong patriarchal norms and high degree of son preference. Consequently, gender discriminations are pervasive. This has been a long recognised problem with resurgence of research interest on the subject. Gender discrimination and continued gender gap have been the most persistent social problems facing the global community. These problems have received considerable attention particularly during the past three decades through a series of initiatives at international, regional and national levels. This process was formally initiated through the programmes centring on the international women’s year in 1975. In this particular study the investigator has tried to “the study on gender bias among working and non-working women”. The sample of the study comprises of 300 working and non-working women. Gender bias scale developed by investigator Department of education A.M.U, was used for data collection, t-test when applied on data revealed that the result is 0.5 level of confidence