IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

Employed Women Awareness towards Investment Avenues

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Dr. Mamta Sharma, Dr. Deepak Gupta,Dr. Satish Kumar, Ms. Shweta Rohilla, Ms. Nishu,Mr. Atul Gupta, Dr. Sachin Vashistha,Dr. Asha Pahwa,Dr. Hari Om

Abstract

Economic growth and development of a nation depends on the growth of saving and investment. Today employed women have independent earning power and their saving nature leads to invest in various financial investment instruments such as pension schemes, post office saving accounts, fixed deposit, bonds, shares, real estate, mutual fund and gold etc. Women participation in investment activities improves their economic status and also increased their contribution in economic development of country. So there is need to examine the awareness level of employed women towards the various investment avenues in Rewari district of Haryana. The study is mainly based on primary data and structured questionnaire is used to assemble the response of 175 employed women of Rewari district of Haryana. Simple percentage analysis, mean score and chi-square test is used to analyze the data. The result of study found that the most of the employed women had high level of awareness towards the bank deposit followed by the insurance policies and gold. Mostly employed women had low level of awareness towards the shares, debentures/bonds and government securities. So there should be needs to run awareness programs through organizing seminars and workshops by the governments, banks and financial institution.

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