In West Bengal, drinking water and road improvement are by far the two things that women more concern about. On the other side, men concern about drinking water and road improvement as well, but they differ in irrigation and education, problems that seem to worry much more to men than to women. With the exception of irrigation and education, one could think that women and men have more or less the same priorities, that is why the authors performed a chi-square test that rejects the proposition that women and men's preferences have the same distribution.
In Rajasthan, women concerns more about drinking water, followed by road improvement. On the other hand, men have the same priorities but they give more importance to road improvement than women. Moreover, as in West Bengal, men also complain more about education than women. The authors did the same chi-square test to reject that the women and men's preferences have the same distribution than in West Bengal.
Those differences in the preferences between men are women are not unexpected. First of all, women are in charge of collecting water in both states. Secondly, in West Bengal, both women and men work on roads, but in Rajasthan, men travel frequently out of the villages to work, so they have a stronger need of good roads' conditions than women.