So instead of conceptually isolating the phenomena, we shall consider oppression to be the wider term, and take violence to indicate, the actual exercising of or the perpetuation of those oppressive roles which are dictated by the male-dominant values of society. ... Regardless of the adoption of birth-control methods, an increasing number of women and their children have been driven to work, out of sheer destitution, while at the same time, women traditionally engaged in agricultural production (given the existing division of labour).e.g. in paddy husking, have been increasingly displaced an...

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