Thread by @PARInetwork

A thread on the need for gender budgeting in India.
1/n According to the 2010-11 Agriculture Census, 73% of rural women workers are farmers, but women’s land holdings account for 12.79% of all landholdings. #Farmers #genderequity
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2/n Data from the NSSO shows that except for the MGNREGS, the gender disparity in wages is significant – men’s wages in agriculture are 1.4 times higher than the wages earned by women.

3/n An ILO study indicates that more than half the woman workers in agriculture are unpaid family labourers. 81% of women agriculture workers are from Dalit/Adivasi communities, 83% are from landless, marginal, or small farm households.

4/n Even though women work as cultivators & agricultural labourers, they say that they are ‘principally engaged in housework’. 61.6% rural women say household work is their principal activity. The report says that this so-called household work can be considered a part of farming.

5/n The reasons why women’s work in agriculture is under-reported in official statistics are many – it is often home-based, informal, flexible, an extension of their domestic work, and difficult to differentiate from paid work.

6/n To empower women farmers, the report recommends ensuring equal access to credit, insurance, technologies, inputs such as seeds and other measures. It also says that women farmers should be registered with the state, have equal wages, pensions, & child care support

7/n Further, the report recommends the joint registration of land (with the names of both spouses), recording women’s names in the cultivator’s column of land records, and at least 50% allocations to women across all schemes.

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