A Study about the Gender-wise Satisfaction of Welfare Measures in some Enterprises in Kerala

Labour welfare includes provision of various facilities and amenities in and around the work place for the better life of the workers. The logic behind providing welfare facilities is to create efficient, healthy, loyal and satisfied labour force for the organization and for the nation as well. Conventionally, male and female are required to perform different duties at home. But as employees in industrial organizations, male and female are supposed to perform their duties irrespective of their gender. In this paper, various welfare measures introduced in the study units were analysed on the basis of the data collected from the male and female employees of these units. Items such as facilities of medical, health and safety, housing, recreation and education were considered for the analysis. The paper concluded that the overall satisfaction about welfare measures provided by different enterprises was not the same for male and female employees of those organizations.