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.

The women employment

The recent scheme of part time work for women of some state govt. provides a good example .The scheme realizes the recent increasing compulsion for women to seek employment due to economic necessity Women have to spend longer day outside home to work. The thrust of the scheme is this has been increased the social problems at home, the crucial problem being the care of younger children. There are no suitable and adequate facilities for children. The alternate to this situation is half-time employment for women. This would make it possible for women both to earn an income and also fulfill their responsibilities towards their children and family. Women may be free to choose between full-time and part-time employment depending upon their situation at home. The sexual division of labor and society remains intact even with women in the paid economy. Idiology adjusts to this by defining women as working mothers. And the two jobs get done for less than the price of one.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Traditionally a firm used to get a component or product from its vender or supplier but did not take the responsibility to ensure at least minimum and humane standards that a supplier would offer to its work force . Corporates argued that they did not own their suppliers and hence had no right or responsibility to interfere in their workspace..Though there is a need for legislation and imposing certain regulations,experience has proved that if firms or units are
not convinced about an issue they will follow it in letter and not in spirit.Let us take the example of pollution control.If corporate do not assume respnsibility,the opportunities for education ,for employment will affected. Itcan bringe the disparity between rich and poor.We need to move away from this mindset and indstry and govt. together nee to find solutions that will meaningfully address the problems of the community.If govt. treats them as erring children who need to be chided and controlled then businesswill behave in a rebellious manner.But if both sides treats each other as mature adults then they dialogue and a commen ,actionable agenda will emmerge.

women and economic resources

women and economic resources
THOUGH WOMEN CONTRIBUTE substaintially to the economics of the family both by way of services rendered and wages earned , yet their potential is not duly recognised and very little attention is paid to involve them directly with developmental activities and enable them to become more effective and productive. In India,agriculture still provide 42% to 45% of gross domestic product and engages 68% of the working population. Of this latter figures again anything between 20 to 50 % depending upon the part of the country are working women, whose wages value of labour is either outright denied to women or squeezed out of reckoning or is fixed at much lower rates than for males even for equal or morenarduous physical labour like sowing or transplanting or hoeing. Some minimum education ts necessary for women to assimilate the of health care progammes, nutrition and diet , norms and values of scarce economic resources and adoption to simple technology to perform some of the routine agricltural tasks more effectively.
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women and economic resources

THOUGH WOMEN CONTRIBUTE substaintially to the economics of the family both by way of services rendered and wages earned , yet their potential is not duly recognised and very little attention is paid to involve them directly with developmental activities and enable them to become more effective and productive. In India,agriculture still provide 42% to 45% of gross domestic product and engages 68% of the working population. Of this latter figures again anything between 20 to 50 % depending upon the part of the country are working women, whose wages value of labour is either outright denied to women or squeezed out of reckoning or is fixed at much lower rates than for males even for equal or morenarduous physical labour like sowing or transplanting or hoeing. Some minimum education ts necessary for women to assimilate the of health care progammes, nutrition and diet , norms and values of scarce economic resources and adoption to simple technology to perform some of the routine agricltural tasks more effectively.

WOMENSHAKTI AND AGRICULTURE [3}

Womenshakti and agriculture (3)
In the adoption of new inputs e.g. High yielding variety seeds, fertilizers and pesticides in the I.A.D. scheme were best adopters and non participants not covered by the scheme were most backward. the soil testing had not become popular with the farmers . The dry land farmers adopted new technology as long as project continued but in the subsequent year they tended to revert back to their traditional system. This had happened even in cases where technology had shown high pay off. There was appositive association between the extent of farmer’s social status and their level of adoption of innovations. Women constitute about half of the population& therefore there can not be happiness and full development, so long as women remain depressed and exploited. One of the major causes for the exploitation of the female is their eonomic dependence upon men. The preamble to U. N. charter reaffirms faith in fundamental human person in the equal rights of men and women. Though women contribute substaintaintially
to the economi of the family both by way of services rendered and wages earned , yet their potential is not duly recognized and very littee attention is paid to involve them directly with
developmental activities and enable them to become more effective and productive.
The women’s participation in farm activity is directly re to the economic status. Earlier the women were not even allowed beyond the household , today the rules related allowing the women to come on to the outside of the house.While the economically lower class women even work on hired agricultural labourers.Thus the degree and level of participation of women in farm is related to the economic class. The role of tribal women context of their traditional economy and examines The impect of rural development on tribal women. Activities such as huntng and gathering postoralism shifting and settled cultivation , craft and plantation labour are considered.

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WOMEN SHAKTI AND AGRICULTURE__(2)

Women are not recognized for their production role in the economy. Their reproductive role is taken for granted and as naturally given. Both men and women are socialized in a manner which prescribed and recognizes the non-domestic public and economic sphere as the male sphere and regards the domestic as the non-productive non-economic female sphere .For the women in subsistence agriculture, it implies the reproduction of exploitative relations of production, -related differentiation in access the new agrarian technology patriarchy and power relationships between the sexes and women’s subordinate position in the family and society .Family income is a stream of money, goods, services and satisfactions that come under the control of the family, to be used by them to satisfy their needs and desires and to discharge obligations. . In agriculture, income-earning work such as planting, weeding, harvesting in the field ponding products like rice etc. in other household are taken directly in to consideration by women.