These voices need to be heard at both the policy and implementation levels if we are to realize the dream of a progressive India. However, gender based discrimination continues in multiple ways: women are not recognized as farmers in Indian policies thereby denying them of institutional supports of the bank, insurance, cooperatives, and government departments.
Women’s work in agriculture is in addition to her role as a wife, a daughter-in-law and as a mother. These are the women farmers of India, whose voices often go unheard owing to their gender, and who struggle to establish their identity at a grassroots level due to patriarchal traditions and gender socialization.
The ones whose day starts before sunrise and continues after sunset.
The dream of socio–economic empowerment of women will not be complete without empowering those who are living at India's last periphery.
