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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970. A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.

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Subject: Sociology × Author: Deepika × Start date: 1986 ×
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    Female headed households in rural Haryana-A sociological study
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2020-08) Deepika; Subhash Chander
    Female-headed households have not received the same attention of researchers and academicians as the other categories of women. Such households are a separate category and cannot be equated with other households. Being head of the household does not necessary ease the women's position for the entire responsibility of maintaining the household falls on her. Widowhood is the main source of female household headship. The study was conducted in two zones of Haryana state namely Bagar and Nardak. A sample of 260 female -headed households was selected randomly from two districts namely Karnal and Hisar with following objectives 1. To find out the incidence of female-headed households in rural Haryana. 2. To assess the socio-economic characteristics of these households. 3. To study the livelihood strategies of female headed household. It was found that the main reasons becoming head of household was widowhood (42.69%) due to the death of their husbands. More than three-fourth of the female-headed households (78.78%) were facing the problem of low income. Mostly female-headed households were engaged in non-farm activities namely tailoring work, beauty parlour, kirana shops and dairy farming and shifting from one crop to other crop in both the district, respectively. Mostly female heads were managing all agricultural affairs single handedly but female heads were not aware of any agricultural developmental programme. Livelihood diversification to business/enterprise strategies were adopted by respondent was the most remunerative strategy followed by farming. To sum up our discussion, it is necessary to provide them need based trainings to generate income at household level. As female-headed households constituted substantial proportion of the rural households, development agencies and planners must recognize the existence of these households in project design and implementation.
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    Gender discrimination against girl child among parents in rural communities of Haryana-An action research
    (CCSHAU, 2016) Deepika; Kathpalia, Jatesh
    Sociologically the word gender refers to the socio-cultural definition of man and woman, the way societies distinguish men and women and assign them social roles. It was believed that the different characteristics, roles and status accorded to women and men in society are determined by sex, that they are natural and therefore not changeable.As soon as a child is born families and society begin the process of gendering. The birth of the son is celebrated with happy heart while is the birth of a daughter filled with pain; sons are showered with love, respect, better food and proper health care. Boys are encouraged to be tough and outgoing; girlsare encouraged to be homebound and shy. All these differences are gender differences and they are created by society. Gender inequality is therefore a form of inequality which is distinct from other forms of economic and social inequalities. The study was concluded among 200 parents in Hisar district in two selected blocks (from block I Dahima and Bhojraj villages and from block II Chaudhriwas and Kalwas villages) of Haryana state. The study concluded that fathers 26 percent had more discrimination in girl child education than mothers. Mostly discrimination was found in joint and large sized families . The parents who were illiterate and had low income status also revealed more gender discrimination. Fathers 83percent alone had a much higher access and cent percent control on capital resources in term of income, credit and savings. Whereas mostly 71.5 percent household chores were performed by mothers. Conclusively, it can be inferred from findings that gender discrimination has been observed in most of the families in form of unequal distribution of resources in families, decline sex ratio, high school dropout rate among female children in lack of professional in distribution of roles and responsibilities and male and female member of families. Parents with limited financial resources had a strong preference for sons. As a result, priority for resource favourable opportunities ranging from health care to socio-economic parameters;education may be given to daughters.Significant association was found between favourable attitude of the father respondents and various socio-economic parameters such as education, occupation, role allocation towards girl child. It clearly indicated that trends are changing now and it is a positive step towards gender equality.