Rural working women

Gender issues and gender inequality still exist in many countries, especially in remote and poor rural areas. Rural women often suffer from economic disadvantages, low self-confidence in the family and community, and limited access to health, social services, and extension services, which leads to lesser decisionmaking roles in the production and business of households and in leadership at work.

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Year after year, there has been marvelous change in the condition and the situations of the women in India in specific community. The imparity of the sexes is an essential law in our constitution. The changing position of women is not only indicating a signal of progress but it also holds again the position of Indian women which was in Vedic period. Within rural civilization, women have always been functioning in the field and dairy fields, but their work was not remarkable.

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It believed that the domestication of animals and crops was done by the women in the ancient age, thereby initiated the art and science of farming. In the present context, rural women folk are extensively involved in agricultural and allied activities, their work has been increased from home to land and vice-versa.

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This paper explores the problems of rural working women of Fazilka district of Punjab. The total sample size comprised of 90 respondents from all the six villages were selected randomly. Rural working women face lot of problems such as child rearing problems, neglect of family responsibilities, domestic work problems, misbehaves by family members, problems of participation in social activities with family member’s etc.

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The entitlements of women farmers will be the key to improve agriculture productivity, It said, even as it noted that there is an increasing number of women in multiple roles in agriculture sector, as cultivators entrepreneurs and laborers. Alongside, it is focusing on women self – help groups to connect them to micro credit through capacity building activities and to provide information and ensure their representation in decision-making bodies. “Rural women are responsible for the integrated management and use to diverse natural resources to meet the daily household needs.

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Cervical cancer incidence and mortality is high in Uyghur ethnics. Their life style and dietary habit were different from other ethnics living together. Study on the role of trace elements in HPV infection and cervical lesion of Uyghur minority is needed for future intervention and prevention work.

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Women constitute a major and vital work force in agriculture. Nearly 84% of all economically active women in India are engaged in agriculture and allied activities. But the irony is that, most of the agricultural equipment and tools are designed keeping in mind men‟s physiological parameters which are substantially different from women‟s physiological parameters. Even the tools and equipment should not only be tailor made for women while they should be designed according to local conditions and demand.

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Rural women frequently have primary responsibility for agricultural production, in addition to domestic responsibilities and childcare. In developing country like India where economic status of women is very pathetic especially in rural areas and opportunities of earning are very less providing entrepreneurial training to be started into an enterprise have paved the way for economic independence of rural women.

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Women constitute half of the humanity, even contributing two-third of world‟s work hours. Rural women in India constitute 77.00 per cent of the female population. They share abundant responsibility and perform a wide spectrum of duties; even then they suffer from being both economically and socially invisible.

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The present study was conducted in Sirsa district on fifty rural women beneficiaries to whom ten days rigorous training was given on food and preservation. Results highlighted the facts that 64.0 percent beneficiaries were educated upto secondary level and only 12 percent were graduated and belonged to agricultural community. Most of the women were doing little bit of pickle work like lemon and chilly pickle. But they were unaware about other preservation procedures like formation of squashes, chutneys, murrabha, etc.

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Ergonomics analyses the relationship between the human body and the objects we use and the spaces where we live and work in order to optimise movements and avoid unnatural postures that could be harmful to our health. An Indian woman spends on an average 5-6 hours in her kitchen which may amount to approximately one fourth of her life span. In the traditional Indian kitchen, due to unawareness of ergonomics women’s usually performed the various kitchen activities works was usually in a prolonged squatting posture and sitting on patra or pihri which used to pose a number of health hazards.

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Women are the back bone of household activities. They spend daily almost 13-14 hours on household work and caring the family members. The household activities consists of cooking, washing clothes, washing utensils and mopping the floor. The rural women even carry out farm work (sowing, Transplanting, harvesting and Threshing) while urban women are not involved in farm work. However no matter how much they do and how much time they spent in performing, these activities, it will go un-noticed because of its non-economic value.

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Malnutrition and poor health status especially in rural areas is a common problem. It retards children growth, increases the risk and duration of illness, reduces work output, and slows social and mental development. Malnutrition among women of reproductive age increases the risk of mortality during labor and delivery and puts their newly born children at risk of long-term deficiencies. Improving nutritional status, including micronutrient status, can lead to increased productivity, increased child survival and growth, and reduced maternal morbidity and mortality.

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For the development of any nation, the females play a significant role. In India, the females comprise 48.18% of the total population. The majority of Indian females reside in the rural areas of our country. The female population of the rural India is the backbone of the rural economy and major drivers in the agriculture sector. They play an important role in poultry farming, goat farming, apiculture and sericulture. The traits required for the workers in the agriculture sectors are inherent in the Indian female population.

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To provide basic services to the children as well as to the mothers for proper growth and development, the scheme of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) was initiated on 2nd October 1975. It was launched under the women and child development department to reduce the level of infant and child mortality rates. The grass root level workers who are called Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) provide the services of ICDS. The place where the services are provided is called Anganwadi.

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Rural women play a crucial role for the well being of their families. Without any glare of publicity, they contribute their best to the welfare and progress of the society. Entrepreneurship-development and income-generating activities are feasible solution for empowering the women. Most of the rural women indulge in stitching activities but due to lack of knowledge, in the technical know-how and latest designing techniques, they are unable to earn the remunerative income.

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Ergonomic designed kitchen has become the need of almost all the women keeping into consideration their multifarious activities. Ergonomics contributes to designing and evaluation of task, products, environment and system in order to make them compatible with the needs, abilities and limitations of homemakers. Most of the women are not aware of ergonomic design of kitchen. Keeping these rational in mind the study was conducted in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar State.

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The diversification of economic activity and labour market development have both been identified as possible strategies to reduce the vulnerability of the poor and enable the ascent out of poverty. Whether such policies are necessarily empow-ering for women has been much debated but less well documented. In this book we adopt a comparative case study approach using original survey material for three African countries and a state in India to investigate these links

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The numerous limitations faced by women, particularly in rural areas, have compelled them to look for alternative options in other places. For example, in Latin America, a great part of the migrations from rural areas during the 1960s and 1970s was made up of women seeking better opportunities as maids in cities (Villarreal 1996). In recent decades, rural women have continued to migrate to urban areas and, besides domestic work, they are also employed in export assembly plants or maquilas, particularly in Central America (Vargas-Lundius 2007, 221-27).

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The elderly in India often end up in a state of deprivation and negligence as there is no proper social security system as in the West (OASIS, 1999). The majority of the elderly work in the informal sector with low levels of wages and deficient working conditions and this has also put the aged in a state of deprivation, vulnerability and distress in old age in terms of both health and economic security (Helpage International, 2002). Empirical studies by different researchers have shown a gradual decline in the standard of life of the aged with high...

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