Knitting is a leisure activity..........

Knitting is a leisure activity among rural women in Haryana…….India.

Here is a Quote

“For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man, we must entertain each other in brotherly affection, we must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities for the supply of others' necessities. We must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience and liberality. We must delight in each other, make others' conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor, and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body. So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us, as His own people and will command a blessing upon us in all our ways, so that we shall see much more of His wisdom, power, goodness, and truth then formerly we have been acquainted with.”
― John Winthrop

Leisure activities   varies among Countries a research study was featured in    Time Magazine for Americans.

We found that knitting and crocheting are among the Leisure activities    of rural areas of India..

Here is the link of a study of leisure among rural women in Haryana state of India.

There is vast difference  between Leisure activities   man and women a photograph in hindu  describes with a photograph of India.

Knitting together

 

XOXO

Realty- that prevails

Women are the architect of society-let them drudgery free.

----bimla.

farm-women weeding

The Realty....

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.