Dr. Arpita Bhowmick
Special Issue June 2023
Volume-XI, Special Issue, June 2023 | ||
Published Online: 30.06.2025 | Page No: 229-236 | |||
Feminization or De-feminization of
Indian Agriculture: What do the recent data show?
Dr. Arpita Bhowmick, Assistant Professor, Dept of
Economics, Panchmura Mahavidyalaya, Bankura, West Bengal, India | |
Indian agriculture has always played a pivotal role in employing a large portion of the Indian Workforce since the period of Independence. The query here lies regarding the distribution of the workforce from the gender perspective. Precisely, the centripetal and centrifugal forces playing their roles in the absorption of women workers in the Indian agricultural sector is the prima-facie focus of this paper. The discussion has been carried out at a 2-digit level of disaggregation using the unit level employment-unemployment survey data of NSSO both at the All-India and State Level. The analysis indicated the occurrence of de-feminization in Indian agriculture in the rural areas and the second phase of the post-reform period (1999-00 to 2011-12) marked the beginning of such a phenomenon at the all-India level. | |
Keywords: Feminisation, Indian Agriculture, Employment, Women Workers. |