A STUDY ON GENDER ROLES – RELATED WORK BURDEN – AND THEIR EFFECTS ON CHILD LABOUR IN AGRICULTURE IN PUNJAB

Within the family, the male is the decision maker in the productive realm with a few taking decisions after discussing with the females of the house i.e. [...] The gender division of labour might be reflected in child work on the farm and evolve with the age of the child. [...] The proportion of the population that is poor is the incidence of poverty, or headcount ratio (H) (Multidimensional poverty; SDG indicator 1.2.2) 17 The Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN, 1989) , The ILO Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. [...] A team of senior officers of the Institute and FAO consultant supervised and monitored the field operations of the survey through field visits and assessed the quality of fieldwork including spot-checking. [...] The food system of the small farmer may be termed as efficient as everything they produce from the field and the livestock they keep is used or consumed within the home and the field.