How many women remain satisfied with the dual roles? If an earning woman attempts and succeeds in merging her working role with the general roles of mother and wife, she will be considered as a woman who is satisfied with her dual roles. The ‘high’ satisfaction implies being happy with the performance of both the worker’s and home –maker’s roles; ‘moderate’ satisfaction implies a marginal imbalance in the equilibrium of the two roles and ‘low’ satisfaction implies being dissatisfied with one or both roles to a very large extent. This satisfaction/dissatisfaction with dual roles affects working women’s self-image. ‘High’ self-image means that the woman feels her work has improved her individuality, while ‘low’ self-image means that the women feels that her job did not have a positive effect on her personality. Low self-image and dual role problems create the sociological problems of role-conflict for the working women, which in turn affects the family relations, childcare, and role performance with active and passive involvement. Indian women are trying their best to maintain this equilibrium so that they feel contended about their efforts without neglecting their families and children. The conflict between these dual roles is quite high in the initial stage of marital life but this conflict is short –lived because the competing demands of the occupational and domestic worlds will make it impossible for many women to address such demand equitably. Sooner or later many of these women learn either to scale down their occupational aspirations or to curtail their obligations.
