A woman plays a very vital role for the development of a country and according to the Indian Constitution, whether they are rural women or urban women, everyone has a freedom to enjoy the privileges and rights. As the women who belong from the urban area are educated so they most of them wish to raise their rights in socioeconomic status but rural women love to enjoy their privileges and rights as given by the Indian constitution. The changing role of women in India today means that expectations have changed, and both women and men need to learn how to adapt in their relationships.  

1. PRESENTATION
ON
TOPIC – “IMPACT OF CHANGE IN
THE ROLE OF WOMEN ON THE
FAMILY SYSTEM”
PRESENTED BY:
RAMAN BHARTI
PHD SCHOLAR
DEPARTMENT OF EXTENSION
EDUCATION AND
COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT
PRESENTED TO:
PROF. HEMU RATHORE
PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT
OF RMCS
COURSE NO. - RMCS 613
COLLEGE OF COMMUNITY AND APPLIED SCIENCES, MPUAT, UDAIPUR

2. INTRODUCTION
• A woman plays a very vital role for the development of a country and
according to the Indian Constitution, whether they are rural women or
urban women, everyone has a freedom to enjoy the privileges and
rights.
• As the women who belong from the urban area are educated so they
most of them wish to raise their rights in socioeconomic status but
rural women love to enjoy their privileges and rights as given by the
Indian constitution.
• The changing role of women in India today means that expectations
have changed, and both women and men need to learn how to adapt in
their relationships.

3. Women’s role in the society
• The increasing of education and awareness has inspired many women
and have had forced them to come out of the four walls.
• A modern woman not only cares for her and family members but also
plays an important role in improving the social status of women.
• A modern woman cares for her figure, health, interests, cultural
needs, social intercourse, academic pursuits, active religious needs
and many others.

4. Universal equality of women
• Whether we talk about education, or employment or even
power, women equality in these is still an individual.
• Now also, many women had to accept an inferior status.
• They should aware of all the women are having equal rights as
men have.

5. Problems of Indian women today:
Changing gender roles
Today Indian women work in demanding settings with long work
hours, tight deadlines and professional pressures in competitive
environments.
The natural tendency for anyone dealing with a busy day would
be to turn home to relax.
But for these women, parenting duties and household work make
it difficult to find this space at home.

6. Con…
• This is compounded by the fact that for the elderly members of
the family, the expectation of the role of women is traditional –
that of a homemaker, which for them is of primary importance.
• This means she probably doesn’t get her time out even after
returning home on most days.
• This naturally creates frustration, and over a period of time,
anger and despair.
• Women also feels guilty for not being able to fulfil their
expectations, disillusioned because she feels like she’s
struggling alone, and finally very negative and let down.

7. How Indian family members react to the
changing role of women
Other family members also grapple with their own struggles-
• Husband: takes sides or is generally unable to support
• Elders: have different expectations
• Children : may not be directly involved

8. Advice women get about the role of
women
• Often suggestions from others like ‘these things happen, what
to do’ or ‘you need to adjust a bit, they have old ideas so accept
it’ are common.

9. How to deal with stress in relationships and help
yourself
•Communicate :
•what you think and feel about yourself
•Respect your limits :
•we often don’t respect the limits
•Be compassionate and gently caring for yourself
•Don’t take it personally:
•Be Mindful:
•mindfulness

10. Major impacts of change in role of women on
family system highlights :
• Increased rate of Nuclear family pattern
• Economic Independence
• Late marriage & infertility
• Decrease mutual affection
• Increased rate of separation / divorce
• Decreased control of the marriage contract
• Increases DomesticViolence
• Increased role in decision making
• Role as head/ de-facto head of the family
• Decreased poverty rate in rural area

11. In researchers view:
• By the late 20th century, fertility rates had declined well below the
replacement level of 2.1 children per woman on average, while marriage
and parenthood had been delayed to more mature ages, new forms of
couple relationships emerged while the propensity to marry decreased,
and family dissolution became quite frequent even among couples with
children (Frejka et al. 2008).
• Along with empowering mothers as economic providers, the new role of
fathers should be strengthened. New fatherhood is generally defined as
a present, more involved and caring father (Tanturri et al. 2016).

12. Con…
• Cunningham and Green (1974) found that decision roles had shifted, with
there being more shared decision making for buying cars, vacations, and
housing.
• Kluwer, Heesink, and Van de Vliert (1996) concluded in their study that
marital conflict comes from such discrepancies between actual and
preferred labor division and that such discrepancies lead to
dissatisfaction.
• Rosen (1987) found that many working class wives realize that their
husbands' prides, authority, and manhood are founded upon being the
provider and thus willingly do whatever they can to preserve the image of
the husbands as the bread-winners, even though the wives may be
earning more than their husbands.
• One way that couples try to maintain the image of wives as secondary
providers is to use husbands' salaries for the essentials and wives'
salaries for extras (Commuri 2001).