in the ugandan coffee sector for example women are typically engaged in tending coffee plants picking and drying coffee and men in planting pruning and marketing verhart and pybum in lao people s democratic republic women are more engaged in transplanting rice weeding harvesting postharvest operations and marketing and men in land preparation ploughing and fencing faosida b eggs milk and poultry in particular tend to be femaleintensive sectors while men often have a prominent role in managing cattle timeuse data indicate that activities such as petty trading and retailing tend to be carried out more by female than male household members while men have greater opportunities in other nonagricultural sectors such as construction and transport