ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the issue of economic growth and its effect on one aspect of female existence: their employment outside the home. In most situations, technological innovation is responsible for a large portion of sustained long term growth, which in turn results in the structural transformation of the labor force. The biochemical technology increased activities associated with multiple cropping methods, as well as land preparation, harvesting, weeding. The chapter proposes the critical transformation consists of the decrease in the agricultural labor force. Workers engaged in agricultural activities may be subdivided into the following categories: cultivators, agricultural laborers and other. Agricultural wage labor constituted a less important activity for female workers in 1961 in both states, absorbing 5.7 and 5.5 percent of the female labor force respectively in Punjab and Haryana. However, the evidence indicates that wage laborers are on the rise.
