note values may not add up to hours due to the overlapping nature of some activities it also limits women s mobility and the time they can allocate to training and upgrading their skills however men s and womens roles in agricultural production are socially constructed and evolving and vary widely between local contexts reflecting cultural and other differences between and within countries while the lines between mens and women s roles is thus generally blurred and a full analysis taking these factors into account is beyond the scope of this report some general genderspecific patterns can be found across many ldcs