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What is Women Empowerment in Thar Desert Region about?

Women have a multidimensional role in the society. The largest number of rural women is engaged in farming operations either as cultivators or supervisors or agricultural labourers. Almost all women suffer physical drudgery in various operations like hard physical work in livestock care and management, harvesting by bending, threshing/processing, marketing and bartering of produce, weeding with conventional implements by hand in hot sun, rain and cold for long hours, de-husking/ shelling, pounding, grinding of cereals and pulses by hand and collecting and carrying fuel over long distance. Most of these tasks performed by women are tedious as well as time consuming. Women of the Thar Desert have to spend all their energy bringing water for food and crops; struggling for subsistence agriculture; and tending to the livestock. The plight of rural women in Thar Desert is alarming as they are constrained by illiteracy, poor health, unemployment and low technical knowhow and skill. In order to improve the condition of women in Thar Desert, it is very important to create opportunities for their social, economic, technical and political empowerment. All the programmes, whether it is in heal

Author

Rajshree Upadhyay; Dhriti Solanki

Publisher

Springer International Publishing AG

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9783031345562

Subjects

Management, Science, Engineering