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In rural India, women constitute the backbone of the village economy. Women engage in a variety of jobs to supplement their income, and the majority of rural Indian women are employed in agriculture, the country's largest unorganised sector. A large portion of this labour force is landless and comes from lower socioeconomic classes. The technology of farming modifies women's function and status in the process of rural social transformation. The disaggregated pattern of development has varied impact on women members of every region, group, class and caste. In this backdrop, it is pertinent to examine the status of women across the levels of rural transformation consequent upon the technological and agricultural growth. Except a few studies conducted here and there, no serious study is done to explain this social phenomenon. So there is a need to make an attempt to study the women labour especially in agricultural field of YSR District.