Does land distribution pattern influence Indian women’s labour market Behaviour? Revisiting the debate
By: Chakravarty, Deepita
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BookPublisher: The Indian Journal of Labour Economies Description: 68(3), Jul-Sep, 2025: p.887-903.Subject(s): Women’s work participation rate, Under-reporting, Land inequality, Rice cultivation, India
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The Indian Journal of Labour EconomiesSummary: Women’s work participation rate (WPR) in the traditional societies of developing economies is much lower than that of the developed world. India is no exception in this regard. However, there are stark regional differences; more so in the rural areas. While states in Southern India show a generally much higher WPR compared to the national average, women’s labour market participation in the east is the least: considerably lower than the country as a whole. This has historical roots. The stark regional difference in women’s labour market behaviour demands specific attention, especially as both these regions are known to be the major rice-cultivating areas of the country, and the anthropological research suggests that rice cultivation traditionally involves highly female labour-intensive processes. Social historians have tried to explain the incidence of women’s low work participation behaviour as an outcome of the cultural practice of domesticity. Cultural biases also are often known to have influenced data-generation processes. As development indicators in general and for women in particular are not uniformly better in all southern Indian states compared to the east, it is intriguing why the cultural specificities will be uniformly stronger in one region compared to the other. Based on the secondary data, this paper tries to understand whether there is any underlying structural dissimilarity such as land distribution pattern, in these two major rice-cultivating regions with similar levels of technological advancement that increases the bias of under-enumeration of women’s productive labour in the methodology.- Reproduced
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41027-025-00591-z
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Women’s work participation rate (WPR) in the traditional societies of developing economies is much lower than that of the developed world. India is no exception in this regard. However, there are stark regional differences; more so in the rural areas. While states in Southern India show a generally much higher WPR compared to the national average, women’s labour market participation in the east is the least: considerably lower than the country as a whole. This has historical roots. The stark regional difference in women’s labour market behaviour demands specific attention, especially as both these regions are known to be the major rice-cultivating areas of the country, and the anthropological research suggests that rice cultivation traditionally involves highly female labour-intensive processes. Social historians have tried to explain the incidence of women’s low work participation behaviour as an outcome of the cultural practice of domesticity. Cultural biases also are often known to have influenced data-generation processes. As development indicators in general and for women in particular are not uniformly better in all southern Indian states compared to the east, it is intriguing why the cultural specificities will be uniformly stronger in one region compared to the other. Based on the secondary data, this paper tries to understand whether there is any underlying structural dissimilarity such as land distribution pattern, in these two major rice-cultivating regions with similar levels of technological advancement that increases the bias of under-enumeration of women’s productive labour in the methodology.- Reproduced
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41027-025-00591-z
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