Women established an identity of their own and created a space for them in education and work sphere. Educational
institutions started training women to enter new arenas enabling them to move away from traditional roles. Families began
expecting women not only to continue with higher education, but also to pursue any interest they may have in the profession. And,
naturally, after spending so many years in education and obtaining professional degrees, they became interested in using the
knowledge acquired productively. As a result, modern Indian women have made inroads into different professions that were
unthinkable to women in the past. The number of women in the profession is increasing and they are making substantial progress
toward parity with men.
Today, in India, one can find more and more women in familiar as well as unfamiliar places - as heads of giant organizations, at
the controls of aircrafts, in parliament, in judiciary, as police officers, doctors, engineers, teachers- the list is never ending. By
tradition and throughout history, Indian women were expected to fulfill roles that defined them in relation to others only, – the
kinship identities. But increasingly contemporary women establish independent identities and move beyond the identities of
daughter, wife and mother. The present study has made an attempt to study the work value perceptions of women employees in
Indian Postal Department.