(Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1986) An Exploratory Study on health Status and Child Rearing Practices of Women labourers engaged in Paddy Cultivation; Verma, T.
A change in the Rural economy, especially the rising cost of living, declining village industries and change in market structure have led to a situation
where under economic pressure women have to involve themselves in occupations which require hard labour with a proportionately lower economic returns. Sides, they have to look after household chores of the family which confront them with problems of adjustment with their multifarious role to achieve greater precision and competence. In India, the traditional Village Community consisted of the cultivators, the artisans and those performing manual services. In each of these, the Women played a distinctive and accepted roles in the process of earning of livelihood for the family. in both production and marketing of products of agricultural and handicrafts. Among the agricultural classes in most parts of the country, particularly among marginal and landless agriculturist, earning livelihood is still a family endeavor with or without division of labour between men and women and children.
