Interaction Between Policy Assumption and Rural Women’s Work

Abstract

The concern of this paper is limited to the approaches to rural women's development and an understanding of their work roles in the planning strategies. In the last decade many  national and international agencies have emphasized the need to pay special attention to the  needs of rural women who constitute a large majority of food producers in the developing  countries. A basic feature of all centrally planned economies has been to introduce changes in economic and social organization, introducing new and modified technologies and providing resource inputs for increasing agricultural productivity. A general consequence of this has been increasing polarization in village society based on a system of inequalities and unequal access to resource and power by different sections.