Managing Personal and Professional Roles

Authors: V. Madhavi

Country: India

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Abstract: The last four decades of the twentieth century have been remarkable for women. Attitude of women towards their own potentials, capabilities and roles have changed. Women have discovered new aspirations and hopes, the achievement of which requires making new and different choices. They have transformed themselves from social, home-bound and relationship-dependent roles to entry into occupational roles with job, career and professional orientations. They discovered their potential and capacity to excel in these fields. Society too discovered that women could play multiple roles and participate in areas which they did not think possible.

The entry of women into formal work organisations was a major breakthrough in India. This entry into occupational fields generated hopes, aspirations and ambitions. This also gave women a taste of success. It gave women for redefining women roles the much needed boost to their confidence and self-esteem and generated self-worth. Women managers, women entrepreneurs, women supervisors and women employees became a reality. Simultaneously, it created doubts, anxieties and apprehensions in men, women and organisations as none had experience in relating to each other vis-à-vis an organisational formal setup. This paper attempts to focus on the women empowerment in these four decades and various inconveniences they confronted along their path.

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Paper Id: 1655

Published On: 2013-11-20

Published In: Volume 1, Issue 2, November-December 2013

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