This document summarizes a student project on understanding how women's priorities change after marriage. Surveys of married and unmarried women are presented and analyzed. Key findings include: married women have less time for themselves, are less career-oriented, and have less independence in decision-making compared to when they were unmarried. Meanwhile, today's unmarried women are more health-conscious, career-oriented, and independent compared to women surveyed before 1990. The student concludes some changes negatively impact married women while others positively reflect greater empowerment of today's unmarried women.

1. Building Mathematical Ability
Project Presentation
Efforts by:
Tejas Arora
Bachelor of Honours in Commerce
Delhi College of Arts and
Commerce

2. Acknowledgement
 I would like to extend my gratitude to my teacher Mr.
Vidur who gave me the golden opportunity to carry out
the survey.
 This wonderful project helped me in doing a lot of
research and I discovered a lot many new things.
 It gave me insights on womanhood and the sacrifice
they make, making me realize the importance of
women.
 I have wholeheartedly enjoyed the challenge of
examining and researching on the topic.
 I would also like to extend my sincerest thanks and
appreciation to those patient souls who helped me
accomplish this study and happily filled out the
questionnaires.

3. Objectives
 To understand the use of basic
Mathematics and Statistics in doing
real life survey.
 To know how priorities of women
change after marriage and the
sacrifices they make.
 To give a practical approach to
theoretical knowledge of graphs and
pie-charts.

4. Methodology
 I first decided to go with TWO surveys instead of
just one.
 Secondly, I made a questionnaire to know what
girls of modern era feel about health and other
important issues etc, and how women earlier felt
about the same thing so as to give a comparative
analysis.
 At the end, I have made a conclusion by collecting
all the results and presenting them in graphs to
give a more practical inference.

5. Introduction to Topic
 Woman was created as a companion for
man.
 But now we see woman as a second-
class citizen. We often see them
hopeless, destitute, wronged only
because this world has stopped giving
importance to the woman.
 With this project, we are trying at our
level to improve the status of women not
only in the eyes of men but also in their
own self.

6. 0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
20-25 25-30 30-35 35-40 40-45 45-50
Age of women who filled the survey
Frequency
Age Groups
Frequency
Who filled the survey?

7. 0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
0-5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25 25-30
Frequency
No. of years
Frequency
How long have you been
married?

8. Health Consciousness (only food
habits)
Before
Poor
Fair
Good
Very Good
Excellent
After
Poor
Fair
Good
Very
Good
Excellent

9. Observations
 Degree of health consciousness has
slightly increased with more women
answering ‘fair’, and ‘very good’ after
marriage.
Possible Reasons:
 Change in the mindset of women.
 More aware.
 More conscious about importance of
health.

10. How much particular were/are
you about yourself? (spa, yoga)
Before
Poor
Fair
Good
Very Good
Excellent
After
Poor
Fair
Good
Very
Good
Excellent

11. Observations
 When it comes to visiting spas, beauty
parlors etc, % of women who
answered ‘good’ particular about
themselves has decreased from 13%
to 3% after marriage.
Possible reasons:
 Lack of time
 Feels no more relevant to visit such
places because they think it is of no
use because they are married.

12. Did/Do you get enough time for
yourself?
Before
Very less
Not much
Enough
More than
enough
After
Very less
Not much
Enough
More than
enough

13. Observations
 59% women feel that they do get ‘not much’ time for
themselves after marriage as compared to just 9%
before marriage.
 68% Women who answered they get ‘enough’ time for
themselves before marriage have been reduced to a
mere 25% after marriage.
Possible reasons:
 Household work
 Kids
 Husband
 Selfless concern for family (Respect!)
 Split attention

14. How much career oriented
were/are you?
Before
Poor
Fair
Good
Very Good
Excellent
After
Poor
Fair
Good
Very
Good
Excellent

15. Observations
 16% women were not inclined to career
before marriage which later increased to
28%.
Possible reasons
 Many husbands don’t like their wives working
after marriage.
 Household work
 Kids
 Husband
 Selfless concern for family (Respect!)
 Split attention

16. How much did/does your family
support you in accomplishing
your dreams?
Before
Poor
Fair
Good
Very Good
Excellent
After
Poor
Fair
Good
Very
Good
Excellent

17. Observations
 9% women got little family support when
it came to accomplishment of self-
dreams which sadly increased to 28%
after marriage.
 19% women got very good family
support before marriage, later reduced to
3%.
Possible reasons:
 Stereotyped to do household work after
marriage.
 Cannot continue job or studying as per in
laws’ restrictions.

18. What mattered/matters to you
the most?
Before
Family
Career
Aspiration
s
After
Family
Career
Aspiration
s

19. Observations
 Aspirations reduced to NIL from 9%
before marriage.
 Family importance increased from
69% to 91% after marriage.

20. How much did/do you depend on
your family's income for self
requirements?
After
Poor
Fair
Good
Very Good
Excellent
Before
Poor
Fair
Good
Very
Good
Excellent

21. Observations
 Dependence on family income has
increased from 9% to 16% after
marriage.
 At the same time, some women have
become more dependent after than
before as now 47% women depend
more on the family’s income for self
requirements.

22. Level of time restraints?
Before
Poor
Fair
Good
Very Good
Excellent
After
Poor
Fair
Good
Very
Good
Excellent

23. Observations
 Over the time, time constraints have
been tightened for women with 63%
women answering that they have ‘fair’
time constraints as compared to 50%
before marriage.
 Percentage of women who had ‘poor’
time constraints has decreased from
28% to 13%.

24. Level of decision making?
Before
Poor
Fair
Good
Very Good
Excellent
After
Poor
Fair
Good
Very
Good
Excellent

25. Observations
 Women have become more dependent
on their husbands to take their own
decisions with 59% women reporting that
they get ‘fair’ chance for making their
own decisions (which is bad) after
marriage as compared to 38% before
marriage.
Possible reasons:
 More of dependence on husband and in
laws.
 Have to take care of children’s need
before taking decisions.

26. Survey 2
 Now I will compare the ‘before
marriage’ data of married women
(referred to as Before 1990’s) with
females who are unmarried right now
(referred to as After 1990’s)!
 I will give inferences regarding if it is a
positive or a negative sign seeing the
trend.
 No calculations involved!

27. 0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
15-20 20-25 25-30
Age of girls who filled the survey
Frequency
Age Groups
Frequency

28. Age of Marriage Preferred
20-22
22-24
24-26
26-28
28-30
By Girls By Family
20-22
22-24
24-26
26-28
28-30

29. Observations
 Only 2% girls want to get married by the age of
22, whereas 15% of the girls’ family want the
same.
 15% girls want to get married between the age of
22-24, whereas 36% girls’ family members want
them to get married by 24 years.
 43% girls want to get married between the age of
26-30 whereas a mere 11% family members
want the same.
Possible reasons:
 Girls seem to have become more career
oriented.
 They want to become more self reliant.
 Parents still have a traditional approach.

30. Health Consciousness
Before 1990’s
Poor
Fair
Good
Very Good
Excellent
After 1990’s
Poor
Fair
Good
Very Good
Excellent

31. Observations
 From 13% in 1990’s, 33% girls have
now reported that they have ‘good’
food habits.
 ‘Very good’ habits tally has increased
from 9% to 14%.
Inference:
 Girls are now becoming more health
conscious in a decent way, which is a
positive sign.

32. How much particular were/are
you about yourself?
Before 1990’s
Poor
Fair
Good
Very Good
Excellent
After 1990’s
Poor
Fair
Good
Very
Good
Excellent

33. Observations
 35% girls answered that they do pay
heed as much as it is required to
become more particular about
themselves as compared to 13%
before 1990’s.

34. Did/Do you get enough time for
yourself?
Before 1990’s
Very less
Not much
Enough
More than
enough
After 1990’s
Very less
Not much
Enough
More than
enough

35. Observations
 From 13% back in 1990’s, it is now 40%
girls who say they do not get enough
time for themselves.
 48% girls have to say that they get
enough time for themselves now as
compared to 68% girls back before
1990’s.
Inference:
 It is really not a positive sign.
 If you don’t have time for yourself, it can
lead to frustration.

36. How much career oriented
were/are you?
Before 1990
Poor
Fair
Good
Very Good
Excellent
After 1990
Poor
Fair
Good
Very
Good
Excellent

37. Observations
 Highly career oriented tally increased
from NIL to 23%.
Inference:
 Girls of modern day have become
more career oriented which is a really
positive sign.

38. How much did/does your family
support you in accomplishing
your dreams?
Before 1990’s
Poor
Fair
Good
Very Good
Excellent
After 1990’s
Poor
Fair
Good
Very
Good
Excellent

39. Observations
 Family supporting their daughter to
accomplish her dreams has
considerably increased.
Inference:
 It is a really good sign.

40. What mattered/matters to you
the most?
Before 1990’s
Family
Career
Aspiration
s
After 1990’s
Family
Career
Aspiration
s
Boyfriend

41. Observations
 Girls of modern era have started
giving more time to career than family.
 Another interesting observation is that
a few girls have also started to
prioritize their love life than all things.

42. How much did/do you depend on
your family's income for self
requirements?
After 1990’s
Poor
Fair
Good
Very
Good
Excellen
t
Before 1990’s
Poor
Fair
Good
Very
Good
Excellent

43. Observations
 Girls are now less dependent on their
family because they have become the
bread earners and they are more
career oriented.

44. Level of time restraints?
Before 1990’s
Poor
Fair
Good
Very Good
Excellent
After 1990’s
Poor
Fair
Good
Very
Good
Excellent

45. Observations
 Level of time constraints have
increased for the modern girls.
Inferences:
 Recent incidents have lead to the
tightening of the time constraints for
girls.

46. Level of decision making?
Before
Poor
Fair
Good
Very Good
Excellent
After
Poor
Fair
Good
Very
Good
Excellent

47. Observations
 The decrease of the ‘poor’ tally for the
modern girl shows that the girls have
become more decisive than before.
Inferences:
 It is a really good sign.