SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF HOME-BASED WORKING WOMEN IN HYDERABAD SINDH

Abstract

The present qualitative research study was carried out by analyzing the conditions of the lives of home-based working women in Tando Allahyar, District Hyderabad of Sindh Province, whereby three research participants were selected for in-depth interviews. The study's main objective is to know the living conditions of home-based working women by exploring the problems they face in the workplace. Four themes were generated from the collected data employing in-depth interviews. The response rate of theme 01, which discusses the social security system, is 100% by all three research participants. Theme 02 was responded to by all three research participants, which discussed the daily routine activities of home-based working women who simultaneously earn and perform domestic activities. Theme 03, reported by all three research participants with a frequency rate of 100%, discusses the effects of home-based work on women's lives. Theme 04 was reported with 66.7%, which was responded to by two research participants. The findings of the present research study show that home-based working women are vulnerable in terms of social security protection; however, they have evolved with a significant share in national economic growth. Home-based working women simultaneously serve domestic duties of households and livelihood, which are full-time engagements that these women perform all day from dawn to dusk for minimal money.