Langha is a village in Vikasnagar block in Dehradun district of Uttarakhand state, India. It is located 30 KM towards west from district head quarters Dehradun. 32 KM from State capital Dehradun.

Despite their dominance of the labor force women in India still face extreme disadvantage in terms of pay, land rights, and representation in local farmers organizations. Furthermore, their lack of empowerment often results in negative externalities such as lower educational attainment for their children and poor familial health.

In India, the typical work of the female agricultural laborer or cultivator is limited to less skilled jobs, such as sowing, transplanting, weeding and harvesting, that often fit well within the framework of domestic life and child-rearing.

In all activities there is an average gender wage disparity, with women earning only 70% of men's wage.

Depending on caste and economic class a woman's role can be determined as one of more in the public eye or predominantly of seclusion; a life in which women are expected to care for children and maintain the housework. The typical rural Indian household is a patriarchal and patrilocal one, in which a husband, or in his stead the oldest son will make the decisions for a family.

Critical resources such as land are also unevenly distributed by gender. Women seldom enjoy property ownership rights directly in their names. They have little control over decisions made in reference to land. Even with land in their names, they may not have actual decision-making power in terms of cropping patterns, sale, mortgage and the purchase of lands under their name. In India only 14.9% of households are female headed. Access to credit is difficult, since women lack many of the prerequisites for lending such as assets or ownership of property.

Old woman farmer.

Old woman farmer and her husband.

Two women farmers reaping in the foreground. Farmer in the background supervising.

Two women chatting while doing the house work at mid-day break.

Family poses for a picture, while the father is fixing wires.

Two girls stay at home in the afternoon, while their brother go with their father on a ride.

Men farmers gathering around the reaper (Reaping machine).

Men farmers gathering around the reaper (Reaping machine) late at night.

Woman and her sister resting around their children during mid-day break.

Mother preparing Lunch at home during mid-day break.

Woman farmer (Pritty) taking care of her child during work.

Related kids in the back yard of the house.

Woman farmer talking a break at noon, after collecting some green onions for lunch.

Woman farmer reaping in a wheat field.

Woman farmer working in her field next to her house.

Woman farmer reaping.

Woman farmer reaping with her peers in the afternoon.

Woman farmer reaping with her peers in the afternoon.

Woman farmer checking her wheat field.

Woman farmer preparing dinner in the afternoon.

Girl preparing dinner in the afternoon.

Neighbour women chatting while preparing dinner.

Mother letting her son out to play with his peers.

Woman gazing outside her house at mid-night, while washing the dishes.