Gender division of labour in agriculture and household activities - Nepal and India
In Nepal, the gender division of labour is highly
skewed, especially when agricultural, pastoral and wage
labour is combined with household, community and casual labour, and when high rates of men’s out-migration to urban cities, towns and cross-border destinations in the region and beyond, are considered.
Recent comparative research on the ‘feminisation’ of
agriculture and natural resource management, undertaken
by ICIMOD and supported by I...
05 Dec 2011 - by Riccardo Pravettoni, UNEP/GRID-Arendal