Women workers and the Green Revolution
Sen, G.
Women and development The sexual division of labor in rural societies: 29-64
1983
Document Number: 410485
The study focuses on the effect of the transformation of agrarian structures and of technological change on labour requirements in agriculture, and their impact on women in particular. More specifically, it focuses on the changes introduced by the Green Revolution in two regions of India - Haryana/Punjab, a region with a powerful group of middle farmers, and Thanjavur, a region dominated by large landowners and with a long history of landless labour. Historically women's participation in agricultural work has been lower in Haryana/Punjab than in Thanjavur. The pattern that emerges in both regions is that of a process by which agrarian and technological change has a differential impact on agricultural workers by sex - women tend to be placed in the lower echelons of the labour hierarchy.