 Role of women in Rural Development (Encountering the real ground problems)Dr. Manjeet S. Pardesi ()
Journal of Commerce and Trade, 2005, vol. 0, issue 1, 15-22 Abstract: Indian population is 48.1% women and 51.9% men. Female illiteracy is 62% whereas the male illiteracy rate is 34%. The labour force participation rate of women is 22.7%, less than half of the men’s rate of 51.6%. In rural India, agriculture and allied industrial sectors employ as much as 89.5% of the total female labour. Women have extensive work loads with dual responsibility for farm and household production. Women’s work is getting harder and more time-consuming due to ecological degradation and changing agricultural technologies and practices. Women have an active role and extensive involvement in livestock production, forest resource use and fishery processing. Women contribute considerably to household income through farm and nonfarm activities as well as through work as landless agricultural labourers. Women’s work as family labour is underestimated. There are high degrees of inter-state and intra-state variations in gender roles in agriculture, environment and rural production. Keywords: stress; employee attraction; pressure; turnover; retention strategies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jct:journl:v:0:y:2005:i:1:p:15-22 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Commerce and Trade is currently edited by Dr. Himanshu Agarwal More articles in Journal of Commerce and Trade from Society for Advanced Management Studies |
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