Family Life Education for Women Entrepreneurs

The women entrepreneurs are unable to allocate time for various familial tasks, which are performed by them alone in earlier times. In the families where men and women pursuing their own careers leave their children and other family functions in the hands of substitutes who may be trained/untrained; committed/not committed. It is important for men and women to develop their careers, at the same time it is also important for them to allocate sufficient time to attend to various needs of their children and other family members. A study on Family life education for women entrepreneurs was conducted on 100 women having Micro, Small and Medium enterprises in Tirupati town in 2009–10. The sample selected for the study were aged between 25 to 45 years and married. The independent and dependent variables studied include; Age, Annual family income, Family literacy index, Type of family, Family size, Type of enterprise, Family Life Education(FLE) Needs, FLE Knowledge, FLE Attitudes and FLE Intervention programme. The data was collected using three point scales; FLE needs identification scale, FLE Knowledge and Attitudinal scale and a FLE manual developed for the purpose. The FLE intervention programme was conducted for 15 days. There was significant difference between women entrepreneurs' initial and final knowledge and attitude scores, indicating significant improvement after the FLE programme. Thus the results of the study allows to conclude that Family Life Education programme had an impact on the sample under study. A follow up may be needed for the sustenance of these attitudes, knowledge and for practice of the learnt information.