Sanitation problems faced by selected slum women - a micro level study

Sanitation is a major challenge faced by women living in slums. Women in slums are engaged in money earning for the living as the low income forces them to be so, even when they are uneducated. Slum life has never been easy for the urban poor so far as housing and living conditions are concerned. For women, the problems are especially acute. Apart from their struggle for living in limited facilities, they are facing many sanitation problems like lack of individual toilets, lack of sufficient water supply, bad drainage and garbage spilled all over the street. All these make life for women in slums more complicated. The study aims at analysing various problems tackled by them and also the severity of the problem faced by them guides the policy makers to focus on the problems that need immediate action.