Friday, September 12, 2008

STATUS OF RURAL WOMEN


Females are usually characterized as absorbed in law status and arduous work. Our findings also more or less runs on these lines, So many attempts has been made by researchers to examine the status & problems women in rural area. The civil conditions of females are favorable, early marriage very comment. Employed women are characterized by relatively large family size and low adoption of family – planning. Majority of them had never been to school. Work participation among the adult females is notable with about 68.7% and majority of them are agriculture labors. The condition of many women is very piteous being burdened with paid and unpaid work.
Modern legislation, especially since independence, has given women of most communities in India the rights to individually own, use and dispose of land and other immovable property, although the nature of
Those rights vary according to personal laws governing different religious communities and even regions. But a common feature of all the laws is that these rights are still not on an equal basis with men’s. Even more critical are the factors, which restrict women’s ability to exercise their limited legal claims and to control and independently farm the land where they do get access. ----
1.where patrilocality, village exigency and long distance marriages are the norm.

2.where women as sisters and daughters in traditionally par lineal groups do not voluntary give up
Their rights in favor of their brothers and instead file claims, male have been noted to resort to
Various methods of circumventing modern low. Single women (unmarried or widowed) are
Particularly to various farms of harassment by males.
3.official policies and programmers reflect and traditional prevailing biases tend to affect both court j augments and the formulation and implementation of government policies.
This systematic bias in the implementation of status of women is found even in the context of matrililineal society. Women have traditionally inherited property, but under the land prevention encouraged by the laws, the title deeds granted to individual households are typically in male names. This is the current issue for debate.