A tobacco threshing plant (cutting tobacco leaf for cigarettes) in a remote part of Andhra Pradesh, India hires only men from the local village for the production jobs, while the women typically work in the captive tobacco plantation of the company to pluck and harvest the tobacco and local crops. The work is seasonal periods. The reason stated by the company that women are not hired is based upon the India Factories Act which states that women in this sector can only work until 6.00 PM. The law further states that if there are multiple shifts that the shifts must be rotated.