ABSTRACT
The patriarchal ideology considers the world populated with males. Women are their auxiliaries. It is the males who matter and what is good for the male is supposed to be good for his family. Agricultural extension services have been offered to men, who have been defined as target groups both for formal and informal training programmes; cooperative schemes have been formed by and for men; men have been encouraged and helped to adopt improved seeds, fertilizers, insecticides and improved tools. In many instances, modernization has added new burdens to women’s traditional work but without concomitant rewards. The use of modem machinery made available to men has resulted in an increase in the acreage under cultivation. In industry, as in agriculture, women are given few opportunities. For the women who remain in the countryside without a male partner, the work burden and family responsibility increase.
