Women in Agriculture

Jayanti Kajale and Sangeeta Shroff

Review of Market Integration, 2020, vol. 12, issue 3, 103-113

Abstract: It is observed that while woman share half the population, the share of women among total main workers has been declining. In view of this, the article studies the trend in women workforce in the agricultural sector from 2004–2005 to 2018–2019 and discusses reasons for the declining trend, various gender related challenges faced by women workforce in agriculture and policies which may be implemented to address the same. JEL Classification: J710, J160, J210

Keywords: Agricultural workforce; gender related challenges; women workforce participation rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/09749292211018879

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