A Statistical Approach to Study the Socio Demographic Profile of Working Women of Rural and Urban Area of the Three Districts of Karnataka State -A Case Study

Working women in the contemporary society are increasing day by day particularly in the urban area mainly due to the impact of education, employment opportunities, women reservation policies and so on to mention a few. This paper is mainly devoted to analyze and compare the social profile of rural and urban working women of the three districts of Karnataka state based on different demographic factors age, education, marital status, family type, monthly income, monthly saving and residence type with respect to area. It is essential to determine whether there is a difference in rural and urban working women in different socio-demographic characters. This is measured by testing the association between different demographic factors and area using Chi-square test through SPSS package.