Narmatha, N.Subramanian, R.Mathialagan, Peru.TANUVAS2018-07-022018-07-021995http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810056269TNV_JEE_1995_6(2)1188-1190Women constituted about half of the Worlds Population. In India women constituted 48.2 percent (33 crores out of 68.4 c1-ores). But the percentage of women in the total labour force is only 20.3 percent. Whereas in other developed countries it ranges form 30 to 45 percent. The primary sector farming, livestock, beestry, fishery, plantations, orchards etc.) provides Work for about S3 percent of women and 46 percent of them work as agricultural labourers, 33 percent as cultivators, while workers in the secondary and tertialy sector account for 5 percent respectively.enVeterinary ScienceArticle