Perceived social attitude towards role of women in rural dairy enterprise
& dairy records’.
sub roles of women in health care that were finally
stratified into four as indicated by WSR. Women’s
Table 4. Role of women in management
role in animal health care activities ordered like ‘care
of pregnant animals, care of new born and care of
Sr.
Mean
Variables
Rank WX
sick animals → taking animals for treatment → taking
No.
Rank
animals for vaccination or deworming → purchase of
11
Cleaning of animal sheds
5.56
1
d
vet medicine and disposal of carcass’.
14
Cleaning of Utensils
5.37
2
cd
12
Washing & grooming of
5.31
3
c
Table 6. Role of women in healthcare
animals
Sr.
13
Milking
5.19
4
c
Variables
MR
Rank
WX
No.
15
Disposal of cow dung
4.89
5
c
24
Care of pregnant animals
5.71
1
d
17
Care of new born calf
4.33
6
b
23
Care of new born
5.54
2
d
18
Weaning & management of
4.28
7
b
25
Care of sick animals
5.28
3
d
Calf
26
Taking
animals
for
3.48
4
c
16
Maintaining farm & dairy 1.08
8
a
treatment
records
27
Taking
animals
for
2.91
5
b
Table 5 revealed involvement during parturition, care
Vaccination or Deworming
during pregnancy, taking animals for A.I./ natural
28
Purchase of vet medicine
2.72
6
a
service and taking animals for pregnancy diagnosis
29
Disposal of carcass
2.38
7
a
were ranked 1 st , 2 nd , 3 rd and 4 th respectively by rural
women. To examine the relation between the sub-
Table 7. Role of women in finance
roles of breeding was carried out using WSR tests.
There were four hypothesized sub-roles of women
Sr. No.
Variables
MR
Rank
WX
in breeding. These were actually squeezed into two
30
Sale of milk & milk
4.04
1
D
stratums. These were ordered as ‘involvement during
products
parturition and care during pregnancy → taking
31
Sale&
purchase
of
3.46
2
C
animals for A.I./ natural service and taking animals
animals
for pregnancy diagnosis’.
32
Purchase of feeds &
3.33
3
B
fodder
Table 5. Role of women in breeding
33
Getting
loans/credit 2.11
4
A
from banks
Sr. No.
Variables
MR Rank WX
34
Insurance
2.06
5
A
22
Involvement during parturition 3.07
1
b
From Table 7 it could be found that rural women
21
Care during pregnancy
2.95
2
b
were involved in the sale of milk & milk products.
19
Taking animals for A.I./ natural 2.07
3
a
They were least involved in insurance, getting loans/
service
credit from banks, purchase of feeds & fodder and
20
Taking animals for pregnancy 1.91
4
a
diagnosis
sale& purchase of animals. Similar results with the
participation of farm women was the least in the
Table 6 revealed that rural women mostly performed
economic aspects i.e. taking loans, purchase and sale
healthcare activities like care of pregnant animals,
of animals and choosing animals for dairy (Upadhyay
care of new born and care of sick animals and these
and Desai, 2011). In finance, there were five sub-roles
findings are in accordance to the earlier findings finally, stratified into four with the help of WSR test
(Rathod et al. 2011). There were seven assumed
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