A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF AMONG WORKING WOMEN OF GOVERNMENT SECTOR AND PRIVATE SECTOR

Simran Kapoor 1 and Dr. Divya Sanghi 2 . 1. Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, Faridabad. 2. Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, Faridabad. ...................................................................................................................... Manuscript Info Abstract ......................... ........................................................................ Manuscript History


…………………………………………………………………………………………………….... Introduction:-
Quality of life (QOL) is a broad multidimensional concept that usually includes subjective evaluations of both positive and negative aspects of life. What makes it challenging to measure is that, although the term -quality of life‖ has meaning for nearly everyone and every academic discipline, individuals and groups can define it differently. Although health is one of the important domains of overall quality of life, there are other domains as well-for instance, jobs, housing, schools, the neighbourhood. Aspects of culture, values, and spirituality are also key domains of overall quality of life that add to the complexity of its measurement. Nevertheless, researchers have developed useful techniques that have helped to conceptualize and measure these multiple domains and how they relate to each other 1 .
The social structure was not developed properly in the ancient time. So, the less importance has been given to the quality of living standard in those days. But this is the age of competition and physical development. Thus, more attention has been given to the development of quality of life. Whatever the progress has been made in the name of development, the main goal is to provide the peace, pleasure and satisfaction to the human beings. The education is a light of knowledge which leads the people on the right path. Education is also the source of skills and capacities. It helps to maintain the quality of living standard. Every couple should be active to provide the quality education to the children. Quality education becomes fruitful in future for their children to generate the sound income sources. The income generation occupation with the high salary helps to maintain the quality of living standard. The quality of life of the people is deeply related with the socio-cultural aspects of the society. The quality of life plays a vital role to bring the change in social and cultural development in the entire nation. The quality of life has made an incomparable contribution in the development of economic sector. The economic development is the backbone of the development of any nation 3-6 .
Today's career women are continually challenged by the demands of full-time work and when the day is done at the office, they carry more of the responsibilities and commitments to home. Women are growing more ambitious as they become key players in the world of work, contributing to major company successes. Due to work pressure at working place and home, kind of work, working hours and etc (government sector and private sector) may be affect their Quality of life. With the above background the above study was formulated to analysed the difference of quality of life in females belonging to government and private sector.

Designs And Methods:-
The present study was conducted in Delhi-NCR to compare quality of life among working women of government and private sector. Data was collected by purposive sampling and total 50 sample was taken from either group among the age of 25-35 years female. Data collection started in January 2017 and completed by March 2017.
Sample was recruited as per inclusion and exclusion criteria. The Inclusion criteria of the study was 1) subject aged between 25-35 years, 2) only females 3) and subjects willing to participate. The exclusion criteria were males and candidates not willing to participate.
A pretested questionnaire was used to collect demographic profile and anthropometric profile. Quality of life was measured by using WHO -'QUALITY OF LIFE -BREF' standardized Questionnaire. Statistically analysis was done by using software SPSS vs. 20.

Result And Discussion:-
Present study enrolled total 50 females of either group from different location of Delhi-NCR. Out of 50 females, 50% were working in government sector (n=25) and 50% were private sector (n=25) with the age of group of 25-35 years.
946  Demographic data of study subjects (table 1) depicted that the mean age of Government sector was 29.88±2.65 and Private sector was 31.24±3.21 which was statistically insignificant (p=0.11). Marital status, family income and food habit were also not significantly different between both the groups (p>0.05).
The education status of both group was significantly different (p=0.01). In government sector 92% were post graduated and 8% were graduated whereas only 60% were post graduated and 40% were graduated in private sector, and both the group didn't contain any subject who were senior secondary.