Lara Roeven & Lone Badstue

Challenging gender and caste identities: The women wheat farmers of Madhya Pradesh

This study finds that gender plays a far more important role than caste in structuring “who decides" among the men and women wheat farmers in Madhya Pradesh. However, women have now begun to challenge gendered caste structures that restrict them to unpaid agricultural work.

Cathy Rozel Farnworth

Preeti Bharati

Vijesh V. Krishna

Posted on 22 Nov, 2023 08:42 AM

Feminisation of agricultural labour in India

India is experiencing masculinisation of labour and while the labour force participation rate (LFPR) of men is increasing, that of women is decreasing.

Woman harvesting wheat, Raisen district, Madhya Pradesh, India.(Image Source: © Yann Forget / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA)

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