A study on the working environment of rural homemakers while performing different household activities in the Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh

Due to the improper workplace and huge burden of domestic work on women, it negatively affects on their physical as well as psychological health. The present study explores those negative environments and the nature of household tasks that require time and effort and are most associated with fatigue. The goal of this study is to better understand the working environment of the homemakers and to collect information that can be used as the basis for recommendations about ergonomic improvements to the household environment, tasks, and products. A cross-sectional survey was done through an interview schedule. The participant was 240 from Ayodhya District of Uttar Pradesh. The homemakers above 30 years who live in rural areas were randomly selected for the study. The result was found that the working environment of household tasks is badly affects to the homemakers and they were knowledgeable about the risks of having waste in their environment but they lacked knowledge on how to manage waste which included aspects of waste minimization. The physiological and psychological health of homemakers is negatively associated with their working environment and domestic work stress regardless of employment status.
Challenges and Issues: An examination of the working environment of rural homemakers while performing different household activities presents some specific challenges. The first arises from the fact that household working environment in rural community are multifaceted; the second from the understanding that community development (including health, education, housing environment, awareness etc.) is a broad concept that has relevance to all communities, from urban neighborhoods to remote Indigenous communities. Lastly, there is a significant definitional problem in terms of how to draw a meaningful line between women homemakers in rural areas and their working environment.