Socio-economic problems of women labourers of rural and urban communities
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2019
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CCSHAU
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Agriculture, the single largest production endeavour in India, contributing about 18 per cent of GDP, is increasingly becoming a female activity. Women labourers play a crucial role in agriculture activities like main crop production, livestock production, horticulture, post-harvest operations etc. In spite of these, they face a number of problems such as exploitation, long working hours, unhealthy working conditions, insecurity of job, low wages, absence of decision making, male dominating society etc. Similarly the women labourers working in unorganized sector especially in urban areas are engaged in activities like domestic work, construction work, small trade brick making, coir and basket weaving, household industries etc. and they also face same types of problems. Keeping in view the above socio-economic and psychological problems and factors affecting socio-economics problems, this present study was conducted among 120 women labourers in rural and urban communities of Hisar district of Haryana
The results revealed that majority of the respondents were in the age group of 20-35 years, belonged to scheduled caste, had nuclear families and were agricultural labours in rural areas and construction labourers in urban areas. Maximum number of the respondents from rural and urban areas had high level of social, economic and psychological problems. Regarding socio-economic problems and factors associated, it was found that caste, education, occupation of the family, income and socio-economic status were significantly associated with problems of respondents. Study revealed that majority of the respondents were not awared about minimum wages act, anti-dowry act, divorce act, maternity benefit act, child marriage act, untouchability act, Janni Suraksha Yojna act in both rural and urban areas. Therefore, gender discrimination should be removed in regards to payment of wages to the women labourers. Women should be awared regarding acts and laws through different trainings and campaigns. Moreover, there is a need to change the attitude of men towards roles and duties of women. In this way, this study will help the policy makers, planner, researcher and agriculturist in making policies which will benefit the women labourers in long run.
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