Decent Work Deficit: A Challenge on the Women Empowerment in Indian Agricultural Sector
- Title
- Decent Work Deficit: A Challenge on the Women Empowerment in Indian Agricultural Sector
- Creator
- Rajan P.R.; Sindhu J.S.; Rishikesh K.B.; Shri M.R.
- Description
- Women play a crucial role in Indian agriculture, but they also confront several obstacles that reduce their productivity and prevent them from fully engaging in the sectors development. The majority of women in India are employed in agriculture, which is one of the sectors that contributes most to the GDP and is essential to the economic development of the nation. Although women continue to have a significant and recognized role in agriculture, their function is frequently overlooked. Women make up about 75% of the full-time labor force on Indian farms. The nation wont develop unless its women farmers are empowered. Only through decent work labour the agriculture sector will be developed which will help in the empowermentof women agricultural Labourers in India. So the government should take all steps to implement the decent work concept of ILO in the Indian agricultural sector. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
- Source
- Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, Vol-535, pp. 301-308.
- Date
- 2024-01-01
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
- Subject
- Agricultural sector; Decent work; Women empowerment
- Coverage
- Rajan P.R., D. Y. Patil Institute of Management Studies, Pune, India, Economics, Zamorins Guruvayurappan College, Kozhikode, India; Sindhu J.S., PG and Research Department of Economics, A.M. Jain College, Meenambakkam, Tamil Nadu, Chennai, 600061, India; Rishikesh K.B., Department of Commerce, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India, Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, India; Shri M.R., PG and Research Department of Economics, A.M. Jain College, Meenambakkam, Tamil Nadu, Chennai, 600061, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 21984182
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Book chapter
Collection
Citation
Rajan P.R.; Sindhu J.S.; Rishikesh K.B.; Shri M.R., “Decent Work Deficit: A Challenge on the Women Empowerment in Indian Agricultural Sector,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 24, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/18004.