Women with Multiple Roles: Perception of Psychological Factors and Marital Satisfaction

Abstract

In recent years, with the increased pace of urbanisation and modernisation, Indian women of all social classes have entered professional occupations. While the entry of unmarried women into professional occupations may be relatively less problematic, the case of married working women who have multiple roles to fulfill, is different. For decades, the role of psychological factors in motivating women to aspire to ascendancy into positions of higher status and responsibility has received considerable attention. Research on the subject has, by and large,
focussed on the working woman's personality, intelligence, self-concept, sex role, demographic characteristics and job satisfaction.