Socio-Economic Status of Agricultural Women Workers: A Case Study in Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh

DOI: 10.34047/JAMAR.2020.v02i01.004

Abstract

In the lower socio-economic level of the society, women do more hazardous manual labour than men. Women do more than half of the agricultural works in India. Still, men are considered to be the breadwinners. This sense of women being inferior is passed on from one generation through psychological conditioning. The most widespread and dehumanizing discriminations and assaults against women are on the psychological level. The female psyche is being crushed at the very childhood. The female psyche is brutalized long before bodily violence is inflicted on her. They are conditioned to accept inferior positions in society. Women from childhood undergo a slow unconscious process of destruction or denial of their self-worth. The community creates in girls at home and school-specific thinking patterns through conditioning, ascribed to the female sex an inferior status.