Participation Of Family-Women In Agricultural Production : A Case Study Of Jaffna District, Sri Lanka
Family women play significant and crucial role in  agricultural development and allied fields. Several factor both economic and non economic factors are responsible for women participation. However, it is most unfortune that role of women in agriculture has not highlighted..Therefore the effort were made to analyse the work performed by women in agriculture. This study was under taken in Valikamam area of Jaffna district. A total of 185 household were selected through proportionate random sampling. The selected respondents were interview personally using pre tested well structured questionnaire. The data were analysed using appropriate statistical tool -probit model. The finding showed that the women contribution to the agricultural production is highly in family-women. The family-women age, income level and tenure rights had inverse relationship with participation in agriculture while, educational level, years of experience, distance of the woman’s farm from homestead, member of cooperative ,woman contribution in agriculture ,extension services and level of contribution had positive and significant relationship. Keywords :agricultural production , family-women, valikamam , probit.
Analysis of Women Participation in Agricultural Production in Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun State , Nigeria
This study analysed women participation in agricultural production in Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun State, Nigeria. It investigated the women’s access to economic resources and examined the influence of selected socio-economic characteristics of women and access to economic resources on their participation in agricultural production. Multistage random sampling technique was used to select 50 respondents for this study. The research was carried out with the use of well structured interview schedule to obtain the necessary data. Both descriptive and inferential analytical tools were employed. Probit analysis was employed to investigate the determinants of women participation in agricultural production in the study area. The empirical results revealed that household size, marital status and local taboos had significant impact on the women participation in agricultural production; all at 5% probability level with a log likelihood of -96.160222, pseudo R of 0.0875 and LR statistic of 18.44 which shows that the model has a good fit. Most of the respondents were illiterate with non-formal educational status which directly informed their participation in agricultural production. The study concludes that there is high rate of involvement of women in agricultural production in the study area; hence the role of some socio-economic variables as well as assets such as social capital, landed-property, cash as well as savings are central in determining the participation level or perception on agricultural production.
The Role of Married Women's Labor Supply on Family
Earnings Distribution in Japan
In this article, we empirically examine the impact of wives' participation
in the labor market on family earnings inequality, by paying
attention to the dynamic aspect of labor supply by wives. We find
that wives' earnings have a moderate equalizing effect on family earnings
inequality. Unlike in the United States, cohort effects in earnings
inequality are relatively small in Japan. The correlation between husbands'
and wives' earnings is small for almost every cohort in our
cross-sectional data. The analysis of panel data suggests that married
women's employment has a strong persistence, which has a significant
impact on the level of family earnings.