Abstract :
Women are the weaker section in rural Tamil
Nadu due to social stigma. Most of the women population
in rural area engaged manual work only. Theni district is a
one of the economically backward southern district of
Tamil Nadu. Construction sector is the one of the major
contributor to provide employment next to agriculture and
textile industries. This current study aimed to focus the
major problems faced by the women construction labourers
at both workplace and their home. It found that unskilled
women labourers were helps the male workers and they
popularly known as ?Chithaals? in the construction field.
They were paid very less compared (half) to the male
workers and they enjoyed poor basic amenities in the
worksites and there is no practice of welfare schemes and
maternity benefits. It suggest that the sector should monitor
by the both government and non government bodies to
working condition to implement the welfare schemes to
provide fulfil the basic needs at worksites and equal pay for
their work. Further it open up the new avenues to conduct
the research in the construction sector to enhance the
working condition of the women workers in future.
Keyword :
Women; Construction Workers; Sexual Harassments; Inequality; Working Condition.