ABSTRACT
We have been viewing economic development as a gradual movement of the population from village to town, accompanied by a fundamental change in the domestic activities of women. But economic development can also be seen as a gradual movement of the population from agricultural to non-agricultural occupations. It is important for a correct understanding of the process of economic development and its implications for the status of women to bear in mind that these two major shifts—the geographical migration from village to town and the occupational migration from agricultural to non-agricultural activities—are just two different manifestations of the same process of change.
