The book is an attempt to focus on various socio-economic problems of working
women and to determine their contribution, both visible and invisible, with
special emphasis on their unpaid activities of childrearing and home making
which are not recognized by the family and society causing economic exploitation
and discrimination which undermine their status. The study aimed at finding the
quantum of contribution by middle-class and lower middle class working women
coming from different castes and occupational groups to their family incomes in
Bhubaneswar the capital of Orissa. The study comes to conclusion that only
education, economic and political empowerment and overall economic development
of the country will give