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 …

livelihood constraints of the rural women they set out to support. This is a failing that might be due to the omission of women … Upper East and Northern Regions in Ghana, we explored women and men’s notions of the processes and outcomes of empowerment …. We began by understanding the basis of women’s disempowerment and confirmed its location within agricultural production …

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 …