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Abstract
Farm jobs end up keeping women confined to “low paid, insecure, temporary and exploitative relationships. Agricultural work is the optimization of a patriarchal ideology that has been interpreted the prevalent socio-cultural system of rural existence that continues to keep women confined to their villages. They are totally involved in domestic work. There is a large yet taken for granted kind of gender divide in the socio-culturally stipulated roles of functioning for men and women in a given societal set up across time and space. The unequal work participation in the largest field of employment generation can be witnessed in the fact that women work incessantly in the domestic sphere. They work in various capacities through the agricultural cycle but the men are in charge of all the purchasing. They are adept at dealing with traders of seeds, pesticides, insecticides etc. They are also responsible for the sale of the agricultural output, transactions of yearly contracts and even land deals.