Abstract:
In this era, every country in the world demonstrates a great interest to know the
social and economic position of women, because the role of the women has been expanded
throughout the past. Though much progress has been made in the society to bring women to a
stage, still it is not fully achieved. In most of the cases, women have to spend their entire lives
with less pleasure or unhappy, stress and tension and this will lead to decrease women's life
satisfaction and it is inversely affected to the development and stability of any economy. The
purpose of this study is to identify the determinants of life satisfaction of working women. The
study used primary data and 142 women were selected from 3 GN Divisions in Balangoda DS
Division which represent urban, rural and estate sector through cluster sampling and
convenience sampling methods. The data was collected using an already developed
structured questionnaire. Binary Logistic Regression models were used as main analyzing
technique. Results revealed that nature of the job, attitudinal concern on social validity for
the job, access for leaves and education level emerged as significant predictors of life
satisfaction of working women. Education level has importantly influenced the life
satisfaction of working women and all above factors have positive relationship with life
satisfaction.
