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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Women fail to get due recognition as farmers -Pillalamarri Srinivas

Women fail to get due recognition as farmers -Pillalamarri Srinivas

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published Published on Sep 15, 2022   modified Modified on Sep 15, 2022

-Deccan Chronicle

Adilabad: When the founding fathers of the Indian republic sat down to write the Constitution, the feature that they gave utmost importance was equality. It was the cornerstone on which the Constitution stands. They wanted each individual to enjoy equality in opportunity as well as treatment. But even 75 years after independence, successive governments failed to make good this constitutional pledge to several sections of people.

Women are one of the sections who are facing unjust treatment. Equality still eludes them in every sphere of their lives — be it at home or workplace. The more the women’s field of operations goes farther from the limelight, the more the magnitude of bias increases. Rural India — especially agriculture — is a prime example of such inequality between men and women.

Women’s contribution is the key to three-quarters of farm-related operations. If one travels to the hinterland, one could invariably spot many women — wearing a shirt and a trouser over their traditional attire — engaged in farming operations. But the patriarchal structures that run deep in the society make equality a distant dream for them.

The disparity is more pronounced in wages. While a woman gets Rs 200-250, a man gets Rs 400 to 500 per day for their work in agriculture.

According to land owners, who are most often men, defend the wage differential, and claim that men get more wages because of the kind of work that they do. There is a strong notion among the people that men take up “hard work” that women can’t perform and therefore women’s work is quite easy.

While men tile land and spray pesticides, women engage in farm operations by bending their bodies hundreds of times while picking cotton, mirchi, among others, planting paddy, cutting crops, and weeding and sowing seeds. All the farm activities that women perform require a unique skill.

“We do not get equal treatment. Though we work on par with our male counterparts in agriculture, we observed that men face mental pressure as far farming is concerned, unlike women,” said Gunnamma Gunjala, 35, of Thantholi village of Adilabad Rural Mandal.

While stating that women feel safe and secure when they are with their men, Maddikuntla Sujatha of Thantholi insisted that they are not weak and they could fight for their rights, whenever it was required. “We can even question our men. But we always try to be within our limits,” she said.

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Deccan Chronicle, 15 September, 2022, https://www.deccanchronicle.com/featured/150922/women-fail-to-get-due-recognition-as-farmers.html


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