Agriculture Women and Agriculture in South East Asia Women in South east Asia make a significant economic contribution to the household and to the nation both in gardens and in wet-rice paddies.
Rice cultivation is traditionally the province of women.
Commmonly women handle the financial affairs fo their households and are the conservers of their families wealth. The women often put away secret savings for their children as well. In this way women of South Eat Asia maximize resources and worth of the family to guarantee material welfare for the family and ultimately for the entire community. South East Asian women are actively involved in market trading and entrepreneurial activity. Women make up half of the trading labor foce in Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, and Vietnam.