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Item Education and Employment of Women in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Lankeshwara, P.; Wijesekara, N.Sri Lankan woman population is in a growing trend, where women are highlighted in every aspect in the society and the employment opportunities for the women also have been grown, where women’s participation is encouraged in every operational aspect. The research is mainly focused on analyzing the need and impact of education on the successful employment of women. It has been investigated that the extent to which the education can influence the employment capabilities of women. On The other hand the education of the country is also in a path of development, where the people are given more opportunities in gaining education. The study was conducted based mainly on data gathered through the house hold and social surveys conducted by the Central bank of Sri Lanka and the Census & Statistics Department in Sri Lanka. Further independent survey has been conducted with a random sample of 150 working women, in order to gather more influential factors on their livelihood and this primary data is collected through a survey questionnaire. Basically data analysis was carried out through the statistical analysis, especially the technique of correlation has been used to distinguish the relationship between the women employment and their education. Based on the data gathered from the employed women, a strong positive correlation has been identified between the successfulness of the career and the educational support. The final conclusion was that the women’s literacy as well as their engagement in the labour force is also growing, and their voice has also gained prominence. It can be said that they should successfully empowered and geared through a proper and structured education.Item Factors of Job Satisfaction of Ayurvedic Doctors(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Lankeshwara, P.At present the Ayurvedic Medicine has become a globally reputed medical method and thus the teachings on Ayurvedic medicine, their utilization and market for Ayurvedic medicine became more popular around the world. In this context the role of the ayurvedic doctors and by that the efficiency is of higher importance since their performance directly impacts on the effectiveness of ayurvedic medicine. So increasing the doctors job satisfaction would lead to improve the effectiveness of service and contribute to enhance the effectiveness of entire ayurvedic system of medicine. The objective of this study was to identify the influential factors for the job satisfaction of the ayurvedic doctors. The study has utilized primary data and a sample of 138 ayurvedic doctors has chosen in accordance the Morgan approach of sample selection from Uwa and Southern provinces through the purposive sampling technique, using already developed self-administered questionnaire.Multiple Regression Model has been utilized as the main data analyzing technique. The survey results revealed that the independence in work, relationship with the coworkers, job role and the social recognition as factors for the job satisfaction. All of the above factors are positively influential and the social recognition has identified as the most critical predictor. Implications of the findings and recommendations are offered.