Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I …. Third, the wage gap for women is much larger than it is for men, with the latter exhibiting almost no within-individual gap … in wages across sectors. Women work fewer hours and are less likely to work outside of their own village in the non …

Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can … have a differential impact on women's and men's labor. Using exogenous variation in the extent of loamy soil, which is more … tilling, we show that mechanization has led to significantly greater decline in women's than men's labor on Indian farms …