Women must avoid being seen by strangers, especially strange men. Access to compounds is restricted and a woman's mobility outside the compound is controlled by her husband and male relatives. Nevertheless, most women in the project area do field work. A typical day for a Brahui farmer's wife is seventeen hours long. Her work is sheer drudgery because the labour she performs is merely repetitive and requires no decision making as to how land and other resources are to be utilized.
Women are responsible for transplanting, weeding and harvesting.
In addition to field work, women collect fuel and water. They are responsible for storing and managing grain. Besides food and feed grain storage and management, the Kanak valley women also dry vegetables, mainly tomatoes and fruits such as grapes during sunny fall days and store these products for family consumption in winter months. A large majority of Kanak valley women are engaged in poultry and livestock production. Collection and processing of farm manure, hay and silage making are also the responsibility of women, although most training in improved silage making offered by the Livestock Department is geared to men.