S/S/45. While women play a considerable role in production, rural households and families are institutions of considerable gender inequality. Discuss with reference to examples.

This paper will discuss the argument that despite of high productivity level associated with women in rural areas; they often face discrimination at family and household (both terms will be used interchangeably) level. In the beginning, evidences will be provided to assist the argument that rural women take considerable part in production activities at home as well as outside. From the on set, focus of analyzing inequality at household and family level will be on major factors in rural context such as land access, inheritance and ownership, access to education ( for better human capital) and overall perceptions, distribution and/or allocation of intra household resources like food, health and income. Nevertheless, it will also be asserted that gender relations are not always static. These intra household gender dynamics is an intricate issue that may be influenced by culture and/or religious values and can vary according to region, even at inter household levels within a region and most significantly, conditions may be subject to change over time.