Agriculture & gender equality: What's the link?

How did east Asia overtake south Asia in gender equality? Could there be a link between agriculture, farming practices and yields and the status of gender equality?

Read the full article to get a better picture, but here's quick takeaway from the article by Dr Alice Evans.

"Industrialisation was a crucial prerequisite to female emancipation because it entails urbanisation and structural transformation: the rapid shrinking of the agricultural sector. The end of agriculture as a major employer disrupts and ultimately ends the rural way of life for most people, but especially women. Yet the demand for labour by manufacturing and services must be great enough to absorb the rural labour, and make it attractive enough for families to ship off their daughters as well as their sons to work."