Factsheet: Rural Women – Agriculture, Forests and Employment
In a village meeting in August 2010 in Maharashtra, India, a woman farmer in the presence of thirty women and twenty-one men said: “When the land is in my husband’s name, I am only a worker. When it is in my name, I gain some position in society and my children and husband respect me. My responsibility is greater to my own land and I take care of my fields like I do my children.”
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Bibliographic information
Geographic coverage:
Asia and the Pacific
India
Subject areas:
Ending violence against women and girls
Gender equality and women’s empowerment
Human rights
Resource type(s):
Position papers
Publication year
2011
Number of pages
2
Publishing entity/ies:
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
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