Role of rural women is a set of expectations held from her. What is expected from a rural woman and how well she fulfils them are the two inseparable questions to be analysed and understood in the study of roles? Role expectation and role performance of a rural woman has been of paramount importance in fulfilling the goals of economic oriented rural development programmes. Her role expectations have been studied to find out her role performance and role prediction in Farm and Home Management in this book.

The book deals on a field survey on the role of women in eleven different activities in the rural sectors. It covers such aspects like labour absorption, decision-making role and socio-economic characteristics of women in male dominated households. The activities covered are agriculture, fisheries, bidi-rolling, industry, services, artisans, small businesses, government employees, maid servants etc. Contents Chapter 1: The Status of Women; Chapter 2: Problem and Method; Chapter 3: Decision Making Profiles; Chapter 4: Working Conditions and Productivity; Chapter 5: Decision Role in Household Expenditure; Chapter 6: Female Labour Participation in Agriculture; Chapter 7: Some Specific Issues; Chapter 8: Conclusion.