The paper examines the participation of rural women in home and farm activities in the Nasik district, Maharashtra. It … indicates that invisibility of the majority of women, who act as unpaid workers on the family. Care of livestock is a female … domain but as agricultural workers are becoming modernized, women are losing control of both management and economic returns …

forces that impact the creation of boundaries or those that direct change are analysed. How women's boundaries and spaces are … a value create a siege binding women spaces within the village and impact on their use of time: education is an … important force that manages to crack the siege and open up to women some public space within the village. Outside forces for …