A study of attitude towards dowry among working and non-working women

The present study was undertaken to study the attitude of working and non-working women towards dowry system in India. Attitude towards dowry was treated as dependent variable while locality was treated as independent variable. Descriptive survey method was employed for the present study. A sample of 230 working and non-working was selected through random sampling. Dowry Attitude Scale (DAS) by Sharma employed to assess the attitude towards dowry. The data was analyzed by mean, S.D & t-test. The findings of the study revealed that there exists no significant difference between the attitude towards dowry among working and non working women. All the groups possess unfavorable attitude towards dowry. They equally believe that dowry is a social evil and taking and giving dowry must be prohibited.