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Women in live-in relationships unhappiest, married ones happiest: Survey by RSS-linked body

The survey, by the Pune-based Drishti Stree Adhyayan Prabodhan Kendra, also says that women in the spiritual field are the happiest in the country.

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New Delhi: Women into spirituality are among the happiest in the country, said a nation-wide survey carried out by an RSS-linked organisation engaged in women’s studies.

“Women who have dedicated themselves to the cause of spirituality figure on the top of happiness index in a nationwide survey on women,” said the survey by Pune-based Drishti Stree Adhyayan Prabodhan Kendra (DSAPK).

The survey also found that women with very high and high levels of happiness were those who are married while the lowest percentage of happiness was found in women who are in live-in relationships.

It may be because marriage brings stability and contributes to the increase in the level of happiness and well-being of an individual, the survey said.

The survey also found no correlation between income and happiness among women and said that it “is almost the same in the women in all categories of employment”.

“It has been observed that women dedicated to the spiritual field did not have family income but they have the highest level of happiness among all the respondents,” the survey said.

It further observed that the level of happiness and well-being was almost same in all educational categories. “The highest percentage of it is seen in women having postgraduation and PhD level of education while the lowest percentage was observed in illiterate women,” it said.

The findings of the survey titled ‘Status of Women’ will be released by RSS sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat in New Delhi on 24 September.

This event will be followed by a state-wide release of the survey in a phased manner to initiate a national debate on a wide range of issues related to the status of women in society.

The findings of the survey were discussed in the ‘coordination meeting’ of around three dozen RSS-backed organisations at Pushkar in Rajasthan. A presentation was made by the representatives of Drishti in which key findings of the survey were shared.


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Women in the 50-60 age bracket the happiest

The survey claimed that the highest level of happiness and well-being was observed in women of the 50-60 age group, which dipped for women above 60 years.

“It may be because between the age group of 51 to 60 years, women generally become free of family responsibilities that influence their mental state positively,” the survey said.

“The decreasing level of happiness in the age group of above 60 indicates that there may be various factors influencing the mental state of these women such as the feeling of life insecurity, health-related issues, loneliness, among others.”

The survey was conducted over a period of two years (2017-18) with the help of volunteers from many of the RSS-backed organisations across India. The study accounted for all 29 states and five of the seven Union Territories, covering 464 of the 727 districts (64 per cent) in the country.

“It was one of the biggest surveys on women ever conducted in the country. We held 521 training sessions for 7,000 surveyors and covered all 29 states and five of the seven union territories,” said a senior functionary of Drishti associated with the study. “Women above the 18 years of age were the unit of analysis and a total of 43,255 women were interviewed,” the functionary added.

“A separate study on similar lines was conducted on girls below 18 years of age group,” she said. “Around 7,675 girls from five regions, 25 states, two union territories and 283 districts were interviewed.”


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Survey comprises 26 separate studies

Under the survey, 26 separate studies were conducted in addition to the overall assessment of health, education and employment of women. Some of the studies include “Status of Women Dedicated to the Spiritual Field in India” and the “Status of Women in Border Areas in India with special reference to Jammu and Kashmir”.

One of the authors of the report said the thrust of the survey was to determine education, employment and health of women.

“This widespread survey will be definitely beneficial to central and state governments as well as various voluntary organisations. Different all-India survey groups in our network have chosen different issues in their work areas and done the survey on these issues,” the author said.

“The issues are multi-dimensional such as women in a family to women in politics, women in slums to women in border areas. We have authentic statistics and observations on women in India,” she added.

“Drishti is publishing a report based on this study in two volumes. The first volume contains the report of the main study and the second volume has abstracts of the various studies.”


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(The writer is CEO of Indraprastha Vishwa Samvad Kendra. The views expressed are personal.)

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