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In general, women account for a greater share of agricultural employment at lower levels of economic development, as inadequate education, limited access to basic infrastructure and markets, high-unpaid work burden and poor rural employment opportunities outside agriculture severely limit women’s opportunities for off-farm work.
However, with the Feminization of agriculture, the process where men leave rural areas for urban jobs, leaving behind more women tending the land, more women operate as smallholders (like these women in Kenya), playing a vital role in food security and rural economies. Gender roles in agriculture are a frequent subject of study by sociologists ...
They argue for a gender approach to agricultural development. [20] In 2008, the HungerFree Women project was created to address the issues facing rural women. The project was designed to enhance give media visibility to rural women, address discriminatory laws, prioritize women's rights and organize rural women.
The role of women's empowerment on agricultural development in Malawi. 2011. University of Reading Master's Thesis submitted to Graduate Institute of International and Applied Economics; Pala, A.O. Women’s access to land and their role in agriculture and decision-making on the farm: experiences of the Joluo of Kenya. 1983. Journal of Eastern ...
According to the World Bank's Gender in Agricultural Sourcebook, women make up more than 50 percent of the labour force, and are in involved in three-quarters of food production in sub-Saharan Africa, but most development policies are gender-blind, [64] and failure to include the role of women as producers further exacerbates the situation.
South Dakota woman's podcasting and networking effort awarded $1.2M to help emerging female leaders statewide expand their leadership potential.
In rural India, women's role in the household is greatly defined by social structure and familial ties. Arranged marriages specific to each caste system, determine their economic worth, and are expected early on in a woman's life. Depending on caste and economic class a woman's role can be determined as one of more in the public eye or ...
The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree. Their motivations ranged from preferring their current lifestyles (64 percent) to prioritizing their careers (9 percent) — a.k.a. fairly universal things that have motivated men not to have children for centuries.