Gender issues in agriculture have become importance areas of discussion and debate among researchers, development experts and policy makers as well. To be precise, it is the prevailing inequities between men and women that are causes of concern for all of us. Whether it is productivity of worker or access to productive resources and services or access to technologies and information or remunerative opportunities and benefits, gender differences are quire discernible. It is apprehended that such inequalities, if allowed to persist and perpetuate, would push a large section of workers particularly women into a vicious circle of poverty and poor health. Certainly, this would not augur well for Indian agriculture that is waiting for a second green revolution to usher. Considering the fact that women are an important and integral segment of agricultural work force. Gender mainstreaming in agriculture has been accepted as an instrument and change process. What is required is conscious and concerted efforts to push forward the process that would promote technologies, policies and institutions of the realistic assessment of gender roles and needs. In such an endeavour, scientists and extension specialists have larger roles to play. There exists a need to equip them with understanding on new knowledge, skill and tools to face the challenge.
In this context, a short course on gender mainstreaming through technology empowerment was organized at the department of agricultural extension and rural sociology, TNAU, Coimbatore to discuss on various issues related to tools and techniques of gender analysis, gender issues in agricultural research and development, participatory approaches for gender mainstreaming, appropriate technologies for women empowerment and alike.
The book is therefore, likely to be useful to researchers, policy makers, decision makers, administrators, extension personnel, planners and development officials of agriculture and allied sectors and students of social sciences.
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