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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The Earth And Her Daughters -Preetha Nair

The Earth And Her Daughters -Preetha Nair

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published Published on Feb 1, 2021   modified Modified on Jan 27, 2021

-OutlookIndia.com

Missing in common images of the 'kisan', not counted by economists, not found on property papers. Recent events put the focus on the silent workforce of our farms.

This is India’s shameful secret, as it is the world’s. The ‘formal’ economy—where human toil and its fruits are counted and put on graphs—has always had an area of darkness. A very large area that it pretends doesn’t exist. “Women hold up half the sky,” goes the revolutionary phrase. What it really means is that they till and sow and tend to half of earth, toiling just as hard as men—if not actually more. We wouldn’t know. No one has really counted. It’s invisible labour, just like slavery was. ‘Invisibilisation’ doesn’t mean no one can see women working—we see it all the time. The classic image of paddy sowing is rows of women, ankle deep in mud, bent over, working all day, giving birth to our food. Tropes abound.

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OutlookIndia.com, 1 February, 2021, https://magazine.outlookindia.com/story/india-news-the-earth-and-her-daughters/304183


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