EXTENT OF RURAL WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN AGRICULTURAL AND HOUSEHOLD ACTIVITIES

Women’s contribution to agriculture is seldom recognized in spite of their active role in the agriculture as well as household activities in developed as well as developing world. In order to probe into the matter that to what, extent women participate in agricultural and household activities, the present study was designed. Both proportionate and simple random sampling technique was used for the selection of study respondents. Tehsil Chistian of district Bahawalnagar acted as central area for the present study. Out of the whole tehsil four villages were randomly selected. From each of the selected village, 30 women were selected both from small and medium size families who were actively engage in farm as well as household activities. The data were collected with the help of validated interview schedule. The data, thus collected were analyzed by using descriptive test statistics to formulate results and draw conclusions. It was concluded that women’s participation is very much high in picking of cotton among farming activities. Among livestock activities, their participation was highest in cleaning of animal sheds. Looking after the family members was the main activity where women’s participation was highest in household activities.