USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Women make up 43 percent of the global agricultural labour force, yet they face significant discrimination when it comes to land and livestock ownership, equal pay, participation in decision-making entities and access to credit and financial services.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is an aggregate index based on individual-level data collected from both men and women within the same household, offering an innovative method to measuring women’s empowerment.

Detailed explanation-3: -Women in agriculture are affected by issues of recognition and in the absence of land rights, female agricultural labourers, farm widows, and tenant farmers are left bereft of recognition as farmers, and the consequent entitlements.

Detailed explanation-4: -One of the most dramatic macro-level consequences of modernization in agriculture has been the loss of wage labour opportunities for poor rural women due to the introduction of technology that mechanises tasks they traditionally perform.