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certain
communicated
critical
to
issues
the community.
could also be
During
discussed
joint
like
discussions
- repeated
with
pregnancies
men and women
very little or no gap between two pregnancies also amounting to drudgery
with
exposes women to health hazards and involve acute investment of time and energy
as it
in addition
The FW
to
should
their already
therefore
heavy burden of tasks.
Understand
Identify the
the
activities,
nature
which
of ‘drudgery’
could be
in a
undertaken;
given context;
Identify
providing
line
training,
departments
drudgery
or institutions,
reducing
which
equipments,
can be linked
access
to the
to
SHG
existing
for
programmes
toilets, etc.;
like rain water harvesting, building low cost, non-water intensive
Discuss
could be
various
changed;
aspects with the SHGs, find out their views, practices that
Discuss
Organise
these
theme
aspects
camps
with
addressing
the community
gender issues
at large;
in drudgery,
and
of household responsibilities, equal division of work between
talk
boys
about
and
sharing
like taking care of younger siblings, grazing cattle, fetching water etc. while
girls
linking
(Refer to
these
Box
aspects
item below).
to provision of equal food and education opportunities.
Women Eat Last, Least8
“When
(percentage
food is
of
short,
survey
who eats least?”
responses)9
Young
Elderly
women
women
61%
Young men 33%
52%
Elderly
Girls
men 30%
Boys
24%
0%
8
Source: Article in The Times of India, New Delhi, dated 18 th May 2001, by Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera, Centre
for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics, based on survey carried in April 2001 of 65 drought
affected hamlets in Rajasthan.
9
Excluding cases where there was no shortage of food, or where food was reported to be shared equally within the
family.
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