I.s.kishore Mathew Arnold

Socio-economic Status of Rural Women in Kadapa District of A.p I.s.kishore Mathew Arnold

Women are the backbone of the village economy of rural India. Women take up different works to eke out their livelihood and the majority of the rural women depend on agriculture, which is the major unorganized sector in India. Many of these labour are landless belongs to lower social and economic status. The role and status of women are altered in the process of agrarian social transformation due to the technology of cultivation. The disaggregated pattern of development has varied impact on women members of every region, group, class and caste. In this backdrop, it is pertinent to examine the status of women across the levels of rural transformation consequent upon the technological and agricultural growth. Except a few studies conducted here and there, no serious study is done to explain this social phenomenon. An attempt is made in this book to study the women labour especially in agricultural field of Kadapa District of Andhra Pradesh.