Transformation in Rural Economy by the Role of Women in Rural area in Nasik District, Maharashtra

The paper examines the participation of rural women in home and farm activities in the Nasik district, Maharashtra. It indicates that invisibility of the majority of women, who act as unpaid workers on the family. Care of livestock is a female domain but as agricultural workers are becoming modernized, women are losing control of both management and economic returns. The level of improved household technology is very unsatisfactory, more especially in backward areas where the majority of women are still working with age-old tools. The paper suggests a number of rural women, whose working day is often considerably longer than that of men. Nasik district were selected for the study. In Nasik district, rural area the economy is primarily based on agricultural and other activities.