International Journal of Physical and Social Sciences

The present research aimed at finding out the difference between single and dual career women on well-being, marital adjustment and optimism. For this purpose a total of 100 women were taken on incidental basis from East Delhi. Among them there were 50 working women and 50 non-working women. Their age ranged from 30 to 40 years. Working women were those working in different schools and their husbandswere working in private companies, while single-career women were not working any where except in their homes and their husband's pay was equal to the total pay of husbands and wives of the working group. Results of t-test showed that dual-career women had significantly better well-being than single-career women, while on marital adjustment, happiness and optimism dual-career women & single-career women did not differ significantly. Further, multiple regression analysis suggested that marital adjustment, happiness and optimism together contributed 21% variance in well-being of dual-career women, but marital adjustment and optimism individually did not contribute any significant variance in well-being of dual-career women. Only happiness contributed individually 47% variance in their well-being. However, they did not count any significant variance together or individually in the well-being of single-career women.