... men. While this is clearly a major factor, there are more fundamental socio-cultural factors that lie behind both (a) rural women's comparative lack of education and (b) rural women's lack of employment opportunities in Non-Farm Employment, in contexts where rural men are equally lacking in education. (Non-Farm Employment, Gender, and Poverty in India. K. Kapadia (World Bank). April 11, 2000.) According ... which show that in the mid-1970s the wealthiest and poorest households (per capita) had the highest shares of income from non-farm sources. This can be further classified as business ...

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