Abstract
In the backdrop of Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) advancing gender participation around the world, this article endeavours to examine the impact of gender order on membership, participation, and leadership of women in Water User Associations (WUAs) under the legislative paradigm of PIM in Tamil Nadu. Employing comparative gender analysis of user participation in two bureaucratic irrigation systems through sample survey and focus group interviews with women members of WUAs and data from WUA records, this article articulates that greater is the gender disparity in agricultural landownership endorsed by the gender-neutral land-bound PIM legislation, higher is the preclusion of landless women and participatory exclusion of women members from PIM. Applying the propositions of R.W. Connell, this article argues that beneath the legal paradigm of PIM, WUAs largely mirror ‘gender order’.KeywordWomen preclusionParticipatory women exclusionPatriarchyParticipatory irrigation managementLegislationMasculine hegemony
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