Women and Development
A Profile of Active Agricultural Producers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10560481 |
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| Authors | Raj Mohini Sethi (Department of Sociology Punjab University Chandigarh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217-233 |
| Publication date | 1989-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Bulletin (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0229 • E-ISSN: 2457-0257 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038022919890204 |
| OpenAlex | W330750687 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
opportunities. Women's tasks tend to be relegated to the lower ends of the occupational hierarchy. While their work burden generally increases, their tasks tend to become so devalued that they will not even be socially defined as work this, despite the fact that their tasks continue to be essential and important to the economy and society (Boserup, 1970; Sandhu and Dhesi, 1977; Singh, 1980; Sunder, 1981; Sethi, 1982). Hence to ensure development with equity, efforts should be made to reverse this trend. It is with this intention that an effort is made here to understand women's predicaments by studying women family labourers in Himachal Pradesh of north India. I seek to analyze the work patterns of women in relation to their participation in decision-making at different levels and assess their labour-time spent in agriculture, animal husbandry and other household activities. Data for the study were collected from four agricultural districts in the outer-Himalayan region of the state, viz., Mandi, Hamirpur, Solan and Sirmour. Out of a total of 3,101 women cultivators 651 were selected through the procedure of stratified random sampling for intensive interviews
Agricultural development · Agricultural economics · Agricultural science · Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Socioeconomics · Agricultural risk and resilience · Environmental Science
| Highly cited | No |
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