Health consequences of rural women's productive role in agriculture in the Philippines and other developing countries

• Main Author: Javier, Ma. Elena Chiong-
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2009
• Subjects: Women in agriculture > Philippines; Women in agriculture > Developing countries; Women agricultural laborers—Health and hygiene > Philippines; Women agricultural laborers—Health and hygiene > Developing countries; Agricultural and Resource Economics; Gender and Sexuality
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3421
• Institution: De La Salle University

Agriculture is central to developing countries like the Philippines and rural women contribute a substantial share of the labor that goes into this sector as food producers or agricultural workers. In the wake of numerous studies conducted worldwide about women since the United Nations' Decade...