Extrait de la couverture : "Rural areas and women are the two separate important areas in developmental perspectives. A special feature of this book ... is that it covers both in an interrelated context in the same volume. The role of rural women workforce in process of rural transformations is the focal theme of the book. The content of the book covers different dimensions viz., demigraphic profile of women workforce in India, occupational dynamics and employement avenues of women and other gender issues related to the theme. What makes the book more meaningful and readable are the ways in which the author suggests integration of rural women workforce in development process. The scope of the book is not limited only to a focus on factors keeping role of rural women at low ebb till recently rather it discusses how the role of rural women in rural transformation may be made more and more important."

The book is a compilation of papers examining women's role in rural production systems in India. The book is divided into six sections that explore conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues; primary and secondary data; and historical perspectives.

The studies assembled in this volume are aimed at analysing the structure of women's labour force participation in India

First Published in 2011. This study is Volume I of the Global Environment and Development 7 volume set. One of the most promising areas identified in the initial study was female labor-force participation. If good jobs at decent wages were offered to women, particularly those living in rural areas, would such employment have an effect on family size? Would their jobs compete for the women's time as mothers and housewives, offer them an alternative route to acquiring status and a sense of purpose, and perhaps also provide the women with an independent source of income which would enable them to achieve more control over their lives? But, as the original volume makes clear, the situation is more complicated than it first appears to be.

With special reference to Dindigul District in Tamil Nadu, India.

In the wake of the Green Revolution, the rapid modernisation of agricultural production has brought about changes in the economic and social position of poor rural Indian women. In this monograph Maria Mies and her two assistants draw on their close interaction with women in three villages of India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh to discuss the relationships between farm mechanisation, the displacement of men's labour, the growing involvement of poor women in casual agricultural labour and the prevailing perception of women as dependants, and to demonstrate that the integration of women int.

""Discusses the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in the cityscape and bringing to surface the contradictions that this assumption offers"--Provided by publisher"--