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Women, employment and marriage a case study on Tamil working women in urban Seremban / Sharmala Devi R. Renganathan

This is a case study based in urban Seremban. The aim of this study is to look into the situation of Tamil working women from a Hindu background, to see the changes in the women's attitudes, values and behaviour towards marriage. It is divided into five chapters, all of which are based on the f...

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Main Author: Sharmala Devi , R. Renganathan
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Published: 1988
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H Social Sciences (General)
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
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spelling my.um.stud.100222020-02-05T19:12:22Z Women, employment and marriage a case study on Tamil working women in urban Seremban / Sharmala Devi R. Renganathan Sharmala Devi , R. Renganathan H Social Sciences (General) HQ The family. Marriage. Woman This is a case study based in urban Seremban. The aim of this study is to look into the situation of Tamil working women from a Hindu background, to see the changes in the women's attitudes, values and behaviour towards marriage. It is divided into five chapters, all of which are based on the fieldwork conducted from the 10th of April to the 15th of May. Below is a brief outline of the various chapters. Chapter one gives a general introduction of the objective and significance of this study. It also discusses the research methodology, the problems encountered during the fieldwork. The concept of women in work, concept of marriage and the profile of the traditional Hindu woman. Chapter two gives various customs in marriage, wedding ceremony. Chapter three discusses about women's attitude towards marriage in areas like age at first marriage, type of marriage, criteria for selection in marriage relationship before marriage and the customs in marriage today. Chapter four discusses about the married life of the Indian women. We look at the type of family she likes to form after marriage, family planning, the size of the family, authority patterns in family, housework and finally, her views on divorce. Chapter five gives a conclusion of this study. 1988 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/10022/1/Sharmala_Devi_R._Renganathan_%2D_Academic_exercise.pdf Sharmala Devi , R. Renganathan (1988) Women, employment and marriage a case study on Tamil working women in urban Seremban / Sharmala Devi R. Renganathan. Undergraduates thesis, University of Malaya. http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/10022/
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topic H Social Sciences (General)
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Sharmala Devi , R. Renganathan
Women, employment and marriage a case study on Tamil working women in urban Seremban / Sharmala Devi R. Renganathan
description This is a case study based in urban Seremban. The aim of this study is to look into the situation of Tamil working women from a Hindu background, to see the changes in the women's attitudes, values and behaviour towards marriage. It is divided into five chapters, all of which are based on the fieldwork conducted from the 10th of April to the 15th of May. Below is a brief outline of the various chapters. Chapter one gives a general introduction of the objective and significance of this study. It also discusses the research methodology, the problems encountered during the fieldwork. The concept of women in work, concept of marriage and the profile of the traditional Hindu woman. Chapter two gives various customs in marriage, wedding ceremony. Chapter three discusses about women's attitude towards marriage in areas like age at first marriage, type of marriage, criteria for selection in marriage relationship before marriage and the customs in marriage today. Chapter four discusses about the married life of the Indian women. We look at the type of family she likes to form after marriage, family planning, the size of the family, authority patterns in family, housework and finally, her views on divorce. Chapter five gives a conclusion of this study.
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title Women, employment and marriage a case study on Tamil working women in urban Seremban / Sharmala Devi R. Renganathan
title_short Women, employment and marriage a case study on Tamil working women in urban Seremban / Sharmala Devi R. Renganathan
title_full Women, employment and marriage a case study on Tamil working women in urban Seremban / Sharmala Devi R. Renganathan
title_fullStr Women, employment and marriage a case study on Tamil working women in urban Seremban / Sharmala Devi R. Renganathan
title_full_unstemmed Women, employment and marriage a case study on Tamil working women in urban Seremban / Sharmala Devi R. Renganathan
title_sort women, employment and marriage a case study on tamil working women in urban seremban / sharmala devi r. renganathan
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