Cover Story: Women & Livelihoods

There are no “women specific” livelihoods. Women are everywhere. Women have consistently and for long proved that they can engage themselves in all livelihoods on par with/better than men. They have more physical stamina and mental endurance than men. In fact women are exclusively sought after in some fields like teaching, care taking, counseling etc. At the grassroots level women have increasingly come together and proved to be harbingers of positive change and development. The fact that various organizations, institutions, governments have been increasingly coming forward to work with women and their groups but not with men proves the point. However lot of work done by women, particularly by the poor women goes unacknowledged. Household chores do not come into any reckoning. ‘livelihoods’ team makes an humble attempt to appreciate and portray a sample of women’s work across.