In contrast, E & N has the lowest FLFP (around 20%) and the lowest percentage of people living in urban areas (around 22%). The North and the South also differ with respect to another factor: the culture in the North is strongly patriarchal, in contrast to the South. Women in the Northern states of India have less autonomy than their counterparts in the Southern states (Eswaran et al, 2013). The income of the household excluding the respective woman’s own income is taken into account.