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Abstract
Sociocultural practices based on a platform of very strong patriarchal ideology in South Asia especially in India curtail women’s mobility. It often stops them from utilizing opportunities to develop as well as enhance their skills and capabilities. Women faces the double burden of household work as well as jobs in the labour market (Boyd, 1990). A huge percentage of women face backbreaking monotonous jobs which also do not pay them properly and are mostly informal in nature. Also they do not obtain any money income or payment for the household activities. The role played by women at home that is nurturing and bearing children, household maintenance and cooking are activities that fall outside the national accounting systems. Hence women’s roles have low status. An overwhelming number of women work in the agricultural sector in India.