Women are the architect of society-let them drudgery free.
----bimla.
It is stunning to note in a study, near about 70 percent of farmwomen of Haryana belongs to the landless and small land holding category, work for 13-18 hours a day, the bulk of which for majority of them is on subsistence activities and housework. Besides their most of the work in the home, farm and animal husbandry domain is drudgery prone. When we disaggregate women's activities in home, we find that the largest and most invariant category relates to food preparation. In all cases women spend at least two hours a day preparing food for themselves and their families. At farm, farmwomen see weeding as their hardest and most time-consuming task, it was found most tiring and tedious job because it required, bending and concentration in order to do the job properly and thus caused backache. Again weeding took up more days in the field, then any other farm operation. Minimum estimate of the days spent weeding were 60, this figure increased as much as120 because of the areas of two cropping seasons. For some crops weeding was found as never-ending task, in cotton, particularly, one might have to go through the fields as many as four times. In animal husbandry domain bringing fodder was found their hardest job. Farmwomen have to walk a considerable distance to collect weeds/grass for fodder from the fields, which steals their lot of time and energy.
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