Although it is well known that women agriculture labourers are among the poorest members of

This paper is divided into two parts.

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The general belief that paddy cultivation is associated with the presence of women workers in agriculture, and, in particular, of women wage labourers, is largely based on the experience of east and south-east A

Kerala

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Of the several factors behind the decline in women's work participation rates from Census period to Census period, a major factor seem to have been the decline of many traditional industries and services in which women were involved.

In Kerala increase in

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The focus of my five profiles is on the lives and problems of five poor-working women living on the outskirts of the city of Trivandrum, the capital of the State of Kerala. Both Kerala and the problems of the poor as such are already much researched.