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Research Journal of the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka- Rohana 11, 2019
little income are not accounted as women’s earning (See box 06). If women are not
employed in an office or a factory then the husband is supposed to be the main
income earner of that family unit.
Figure 02. Gender relation on income earning process.
Source: Field Study, 2014/2016.
Box 05. Case-04, a 45-year-old woman in Badungoda Colony
“My husband did his job, felling trees, when there is no work; he goes to
do other work. One day when he went to till the field, he was infected
with leptospirosis. He did not care. The drank “kasippu” telling his body
aches. When taken to hospital in vain it was too late. He passed away
seven days later. After that, all the housework is on my shoulder. Now I
am going to work in the ‘Abeysundara oil mill’. I make ends meet guest
by the petty wage I get from that job.
Source; Field Study, 2014/2016.
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