THE STUDY OF WORKING WOMEN WHO COMMUTE TO WORK:AN AN ANALYSIS OF FEMALE TIME MANGEMENT,WORK PATTERN AND FEMALE AUTONOMY

The financial demands and cost of living on the Indian families are tremendously increasing. As a result women which is known as homemakers are forced to go for jobs. Working women are faced with lot more challenges. The major burden of running the family is on the shoulders of women. They have to take up a 9-5 job plus handle all the household chores.
In this paper, life of working women both married and never married in different services sector organizations of Mumbai is investigated. Population used for the study was all working women working who commuting by the local train.
The study employs data that include qualitative information. Qualitative data include primary source. It is collected through a survey (self administered questionnaire).Interview schedule has been carried out between March 2012 and April 2012.Respondent have been selected from the Mumbai area like Dadar, Ghatkopar, Thane, Bhandup, Vikroli, Govandi and in Navi-Mumbai (Airoli , Ghansoli, vashi, ) of Maharashtra State.
The study shows that married working women faced more problems like balancing work-family life; less leisure time, less autonomy than never married working women. Very less amount of money is spent on health, major spending is done on household things.