Analyzing the Attitudes of Working Women towards Day Care Center in Divisional City, Sylhet: A Study on the Selected Working Women of Different Organization of Sylhet City

Abdul Latif, Aysa Yeasmin, Sowrav Mozumder and Biplob Kumar Deb

International Journal of Management Sciences, 2014, vol. 3, issue 9, 626-635

Abstract: The increasing employment trends of women are creating more problems of balancing between job needs and family needs specially the need of child care day by day. The problem is intensified in present trend of single family rather than joint family. The need of child care centers are arising due to fulfill the requirements of employing women. But some factors are considered as the cause of positive and negative attitude towards those centers as the decision to send the kids to such centers depends on those attitudes. The main objective of this paper is to study the positive and negative attitude of women towards the day care center by using primary and secondary data in Sylhet city. Primary data was collected from working women through questionnaire and interview and secondary data from website, newspaper etc. Frequency distribution and Chi-square test were used for analysis of the data. The study found that around 30% women’s attitude is positive towards the day care center now but changing attitudes and requirements of the society is increasing their positive attitudes but they need more security for their kids and an abuse free, enjoyable learning environment for their child into day care center in affordable charges.

Keywords: Day care centers; Age of children; Attitudes of women; women entrepreneurs; and Duration of service. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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