About the Book: Gender and Agriculture: An Indian Perspective
Gender is a way of looking at how social norms and power structures impact on
the lives and opportunities available to different groups of men and women.
Understanding the gender relations and the power dynamics behind them is a
pre-requisite for understanding individuals access to and distribution of
resources, the ability to make decisions and the way women and men, boys and
girls are affected by political processes and social development. This book will
provide a single platform on the topic related to gender. It covers the Gender
Issues in Agrarian Economy, role of women in agriculture,