Quality of Life of Working Women in Plantation Sectors: with special reference to Kodagu
District of Karnataka State
Saravana K Research Scholar Department of Studies and Research in Social Work, Tumkur University Email: sarwanmass@gmail.com, Mob: 9739244374
Dr. Lokesha M.U
Assistant Professor Department of Studies and Research in Social Work, Tumkur University Abstract
The major employment source for plantations is human resource, majority
women workers were engaged plantation related work such as plucking coffee seeds, applying pesticides to coffee plants etc., rather than male worker. The cultivation of coffee is a century old practice in Karnataka, coffee was planted at chandradrona hill of Chikkamagaluru District of Karnataka state by a Mecca pilgrim Bababudan in the year of 700AC. Cultivation of Coffee dominated in the hill tracts of South India, in that Karnataka dominant 79.3 percentage of total coffee production in India. Employees in plantation were working since numerous generations the wretched state of this sector has made plantation workers life factually miserable. Insecure working circumstances build them collectively as well as economically pathetic, which robotically keep out them from the social strata. Women needs perform different role in the society, she has to manage both house and quality of work life at a time. This study attempts to assess the quality of work life of women employees working in selected coffee plantations in Koorg (Kodagu) of Karnataka by adopting WHO- Quality of Life Scale (WHOQOLS) tool. The study was conducted based on primary level data that followed stratified sampling method with descriptive research design and reviewing some related literatures from past research reports. The results also highlighted that employed women are not constructively positioned and this has harsh inferences on the families, organizations and society in general. Keywords: Quality of Work life, Economic, Plantation, Women