Marzia Fontana
Research Fellow & Director of MA Gender and Development Programme, University of Sussex, UK

Marzia Fontana describes access to decent work as a pathway to rural areas women’s empowerment. She says that cooking, caring for children and other household chores take lot of time for women and yet these contributions are not fully recognized. She forwards that rural women need to have access to stable and decent work, as well as the capacity to participate in politics. Moreover, this participation requires change in strategies and policy towards involving rural women in the political process. Legislation needs to be translated into concrete activity.