Work and domestic roles of the Dule Bagdi women of ...
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| Title | Work and domestic roles of the Dule Bagdi women of southern West Bengal |
| Author(s) | S. Dasgupta |
| Journal | Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society |
| Date | 1998 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Start page | 277 |
| End page | 281 |
| Abstract | The traditional Bengali Hindu view of women's work roles confined in the boundaries of the household, characterized by dependence on, & obedience to, their husbands' authority, has little relevance to the social & economic life of the Dule Bagdi of West Bengal, India. Their subsistence economy compels a married couple to start a structurally independent nuclear unit of their own supported by the incomes earned by both husband & wife working as wage earners. The complementarity of the division of labor between husband & wife, the absence of a wife's total economic dependence on her husband, & the lack of any real economic authority of the husband over his wife give rise to a domestic unit among the Dule Bagdis where the husband & wife relate to each other in horizontal, rather than vertical, terms. Adapted from the source document. |
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