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Facts and
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A
young farmer transports farmyard manure in
Nepal
FAO/14900
/G. D'Onofrio
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- Women make up 51 percent of the
agricultural labour force worldwide.
- A study of the household division of labour
in Bangladeshi villages found that women worked
almost 12 hours a day - compared with the eight
to ten hours a day worked by men in the same
villages.
- In many regions, women spend up to five
hours a day collecting fuelwood and water and up
to four hours preparing food.
- In Africa and Asia, women work about 13
hours more than men each week.
- In Southeast Asia, women provide up to
90 percent of the labour for rice
cultivation.
- In Africa, 90 percent of the work of
gathering water and wood, for the household and
for food preparation, is done by women.
- In Pakistan, 50 percent of rural women
cultivate and harvest wheat.
- In the world's least developed countries,
23 percent of rural households are headed
by women.
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