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Intergender access to and control of productive resources among rural families in Faridabad District of Haryana

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Title Intergender access to and control of productive resources among rural families in Faridabad District of Haryana
 
Creator Arora, Anupama
 
Contributor Mehta, Sudershan
 
Subject Inter-gender, Access, Control, Productive resources
 
Description The study was conducted in two purposively selected villages of Faridabad
district i.e. Sotai and Nimka. From these villages, 100 couples were selected randomly.
Personal, social, economic and communication characteristics of the respondents
were taken as independent variables. Access to productive resources viz., control of
productive resources and perception about access to and control of productive resources
were taken as dependent variables. Data were collected through well structured interview
schedule.
The study revealed that Nimka village was near to Faridabad district, situated on the
main road, having more geographical area, population, number of males and females, sex
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ratio, literacy rate, infrastructure facilities than Sotai village. Irrespective of villages,
Majority of the respondents belonged to medium caste, had joint families of large size,
income up to Rs. 5000/month with higher mass media access and had up to one acre land
holding. Most of the male respondents were in the field of cultivation followed by
dairying and in private companies whereas majority of the females were engaged in
dairying and cultivation. In Agriculture related activities, both males and females were
occupied in majority of the activities whereas in case of animal husbandry activities,
female participation was more. Maximum time spent by males in land based activities,
manufacturing, servicing and trading whereas female spent maximum time in land and
livestock based activities. Majority of the female had negligible access to land. most of
the male respondents were cultivating land with the help of their wives and were main
decision makers in dispose off property. All the males and only 1/3rd of females were
paid workers and most of these females were getting same salary for same work as their
male counterpart which was mostly kept by their husbands. Literacy rate of male was
high as compared to female. Male's access and control over mass media was higher
whereas in case of females, it was of medium level. Overall, females had medium to low
access to productive resources but low controlling power. Majority of the males from
medium caste, educated and from service class were found to be more in favor of
providing ownership and controlling power to females whereas all the females
irrespective of age, caste, family size, type, education and occupation were found to be
interested in access to and control of productive resources.
Further village-wise, in Nimka both males and females had more participation in
servicing whereas it was in trading (only males) in Sotai. No access to credit was found
in Sotai village whereas in case of Nimka village, females had access (12.50%).
However, female's access in employment, deposits and savings, mass media, training and
credit was comparatively high in Nimka village than in Sotai village. Females had
negligible control in case of all productive resources. However, in Nimka, females had
somewhat control of land, employment, deposits and savings and mass media.
 
Date 2016-12-02T10:13:14Z
2016-12-02T10:13:14Z
2006
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/88815
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CCSHAU