WOMEN AGRICULTURAL WORKERS IN PUDUKKOTTAI DISTRICT OF TAMIL NADU - A STUDY

Abstract

Women as agricultural labourers are discriminated in wage payment on sex basis. The wage differences exist in all major agriculture operations including transplanting and weed in which women intensive operations and better are performed by women labourers. There is a need for effective implementation of minimum wage. This paper examines the women agricultural workers with the objectives; i) to evaluate the income and expenditure pattern of agricultural women workers in Pudukkottai district, Tamil Nadu ii) to identify the standard of living of agricultural women workers in the study area and iii) to analysis the pattern of borrowing and the purpose of borrowing of the agricultural women workers. There are 50 women agricultural labourers selected for the present study. Information on wages, employment, income, borrowing and other aspects each of the respondent households were collected, with the help of a pre-tested interview schedule. From the analysis that serious effort to improve female literacy through ensuring compulsory elementary education needs to be taken up urgently. They also do not develop on other skill to diversity their labour. But it is found that the labourers now have realized the importance of education and they force their children to attend school, which is welcoming feature.