Decent Work Deficit: A Challenge on the Women Empowerment in Indian Agricultural Sector

Women play a crucial role in Indian agriculture, but they also confront several obstacles that reduce their productivity and prevent them from fully engaging in the sector’s development. The majority of women in India are employed in agriculture, which is one of the sectors that contributes most to the GDP and is essential to the economic development of the nation. Although women continue to have a significant and recognized role in agriculture, their function is frequently overlooked. Women make up about 75% of the full-time labor force on Indian farms. The nation won’t develop unless its women farmers are empowered. Only through decent work labour the agriculture sector will be developed which will help in the empowerment of women agricultural Labourers in India. So the government should take all steps to implement the decent work concept of ILO in the Indian agricultural sector.