Women are the back bone of household activities. They spend daily almost 13-14 hours on household work and caring the family members. The household activities consists of cooking, washing clothes, washing utensils and mopping the floor. The rural women even carry out farm work (sowing, Transplanting, harvesting and Threshing) while urban women are not involved in farm work. However no matter how much they do and how much time they spent in performing, these activities, it will go un-noticed because of its non-economic value. But the drudgery involved in performing these activities are very high. The strain due to the drudgery impairs the health of household women, which affects the quality and time spent in work. The physiological discomfort caused by drudgery reduces the hand grip strength and causes other kinds of fatigue. Therefore there is a need to understand the extent of changes in the hand grip strength of women from rural and urban areas due to cooking, mopping, cleaning of utensils and washing of clothes. Hand grip strength affects the time taken to perform a job. In this study only cooking, mopping, cleaning utensils and washing clothes are included because these four activities are common both in rural and urban households.

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