Gender differences in participation of family members in different homestead activities [in Bangladesh].
1995
Halim A. | Nahar B.S. | Alam A.B.M.M.
A investigation was made with 60 households at Kazirshimala Farming Systems Research and Development Programme (FSRDP) site, Bangladesh to find out the gender differences in contribution of agricultural, domestic and non-farm activities in the homesteads. The households covered large, medium and small farm categories with homestead sizes of 0.41, 0.12 and 0.06 ha, respectively. Nine different agricultural and six different domestic and non-farm activities were recorded in the homestead. The average total contribution in all homestead activities were more than three-fold with women (592 labour days/year) than men (183 labour days/year). Separately, women contributed nearly equal labour days/year (122) with men (127 labour days/year) in agriculture while much more in domestic (360 labour days/year) and non-farm (110 labour days/year) activities over men (17 and 38 labour days/year, respectively for domestic and non-farm activities). Among the farm categories, women were the dominant contributors in all activities in small farms while in large and medium farms, they contributed more in domestic and non-farm activities. In respect of total labour charge per year, women contributed Tk 19,231.00 compared to men, who contributed Tk 6,392.00 irrespective of the farm size.
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