Socio - Economic status of female headed-households in rural Punjab-Haryana Plain 2011

A woman is the companion of man gifted with equal mental capacities. She has right to participate in minutest details activities man, and she same freedom liberty as he. By sheer force a vicious custom, even most ignorant worthless men have been enjoying superiority over women which they do not deserve ought have, “Women hold up half sky – Chinese proverb long more aspiration than fact. In developed developing countries alike, gender gaps persist education, health, work, wages political participation. patriarchal societies all world India particular, an elderly male member family considered head household. But household structure headship are fast changing under impact structural changes due development Indian society (Vardhan, 1999) [31].