Home management is the natural outgrowth of human association in the home environment. As soon as the family is established and persons begin working together for common purposes, needs arise for the development of a plan of action for the delegation of responsibility, and for organizing and controlling the use of available human and non-human resources.
Home management is the means of using resources for the attainment of family goals. As the management of resources available for family use proceeds through its sequence of managerial activities or steps-planning, organizing, controlling and evaluating. One must choose between desires and attainments and the number of choices may be multitudinals. At each step, home-maker must face problems and situations that call for decisions. Decision-making is important in home management, because it is the way one makes things happen instead of just letting them happen. Each day brings numerous problems that require conscious decision making. For some time writer on the family and those engaged in home management research have been concerned with the question of who makes decisions in the family. Investigative reports suggest that women appeared to be most active in home management and men in money management.
The changes in modern life are reflected in the management of home. The changed attitude toward the place of women and children in society have brought many new problems in family relationships and in the use of family resources" The change in the home from producing to a consuming unit not only increases the managerial problems concerning the use of human and material resources but also requires different methods of meeting the problems. Expanded knowledge is needed by home-makers# these problems are to be solved with satisfaction to all.
Home management is a practical science. It can not do away with a concept of degree or management. As in other practical sciences such as medicine, measurements of normal are abnormal health show a state of being in terms of degree. In home management, managing show some degree competence. Everyone learns to manage, in some manner the resources at his disposal. Some people learn to manage well, but all manage in some degree of competence. Thus a home in which goals are being attained with some degree of satisfaction may be considered a well-managed home. The use made of the family's resources and the extent to which family goals are realized depend in large measure on the managerial ability of women.
Women have been playing a vital role since ages in the household as well as on farms, but the pivotal role played by women in development of society had not yet been recognized fully. The women occupies an important place in the socio-economic structure of their society. Women carryout exactly the same operations like am- other women in the society with the same fashion, love and fear and devotion to their home, husband and children.
These women are not kept away from the impact of socio-economic changes affecting the neigbourhood or society in general. In the process of change, the woman, wheather she likes it or not, is forced to other to change woman. With certain norms, which may even take away her freedom, her control over whatever primitive production factors in her family process, her control over production, her house, family children and even her own life. The process of such an alienation has an impact on women.
A women plays multifarious socio-economic roles inside as well as outside the home women work harder than men in rural society. They are not only homemakers but also food-providers, baring land preparation, irrigation and plant protection, they do all the form jobs and are entirely incharge of kitchen gardening and animal keeping. Their involvement in agriculture is 80 percent. Men, however, attend to 61 percent of the animal husbandary work-women share abundant responsibilities and perform a wide spectrum of duties in running the household and the family like child care collection of fodder and fuel, cooking, working and sowing as well as attending the farm activities, daily, animal husbandary and extending a helping hand in artisanship and handicrafts.
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