Alice Evans on The Great Gender Divergence
Ideas of India
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The Importance of Women in Agriculture
The difference between the North and the South comes from agricultural labor-intensive cultivation. Women are needed when demand for labor is large, whether that's part of structural transformation or an ancestral agriculture, then women are needed. In parts of India where they were more likely to have lower crop yields historically, there are higher sex ratios today, but women are no less likely to work.
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