Remittances have hastened integration of the semi-subsistence and cash economies, but women are in many ways worse off. The women left in the village are unable to use their husbands' draft animals which are normally left under the control of another man, and do not have land rights. They, therefore, spend dramatically more time farming family and compound land to the detriment of their own agricultural and other activities. They do not control the outputs from this communal land, and most decisions are made by the male head of the extended family under whose authority they remain. Intensification of farming .
Women have less time than men to attend meetings.
Moreover, because set days each week are dedicated to specific activities, most women are only able to attend extension meetings or other activities on a certain day that can only be changed by agreement of village elders. A priority for extension services should be facilitating women's access to labor-saving technologies. The Diversity of Women's Activities Women's activities can be contrasted with men's activities and with the activities of other women. Although a degree of gender-specificity is the norm, in some areas men and women grow similar crops and do similar tasks. When only women are considered, their rural activities are found to be extremely diverse among and within ethnic groups, and even within villages and agro-ecological farming systems.