Women in Agriculture

Lesson 16 : Changing Pattern of Rural Families

Interactional Changes

• Power allocation to women in decision making is getting recognized
• Emanicipation of wife/ women is coming to light
• Husbands are playing instrumental and wives expressive role
• The assumption of economic role and the education of wife are making women potential
• The source of power has shifted from culture to resource, where resource is anything that one partner may make available to the other, thus helping the later satisfy her/his needs.
• The authority of grand parents/elders of the family is decreasing and they are not influential
• The relationship between daughter-in-law and Parents-in-law is changing, more significantly between DIL-MIL and less significantly between DIL-FIL
• Younger generation is clinging more towards individuality, but spirit of individualism is not growing
• Consanguineous relationship does not have any primacy over conjugal relationship
• Culture, ideology and resources are showing significant impact on relationship in -terms of awareness, knowledge and access