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Ester Boserup (18 May 1910 [1] – 24 September 1999) was a Danish economist.She studied economic and agricultural development, worked at the United Nations as well as other international organizations, and wrote seminal books on agrarian change and the role of women in development.
Lady Evelyn Barbara Balfour, OBE (16 July 1898 – 16 January 1990) was a British farmer, educator, organic farming pioneer, and a founding figure in the organic movement. She was one of the first women to study agriculture at an English university, graduating from the institution now known as the University of Reading. [1]
Though the United States Department of Agriculture and the Women's Bureau proposed the Women's Land Army in 1941, Congress did not formally approve the WLA until 1943. [14] The Women's Bureau advocated for female farm employment, a wage of thirty cents per hour, physical ability requirement, and standard housing conditions. [14]
The Recovering Joy Arts and Nature Center recently was awarded a grant for $8,050 from the Kentucky Foundation for Women to help fund classes that teach SKYHope women more about fiber arts ...
The following is a list of entries for potential inclusion in the Selected quote section of a Portal devoted to women's history. All quotes must be from an individual with an existing biographical article on Wikipedia, with an accompanying free-use image relating to the author, and sourced.
Women were historically rarely farm owners in agriculture in the United Kingdom, [1] but the number who own or lease farms is rising rapidly in the 21st century; by 2013 there were 25,000. [ 2 ] A 2014 survey by Farmers Weekly showed that 59% of women felt that agriculture was at least as good as other industries in equal opportunities for women.
This underrepresentation makes our political participation even more imperative. To that end, HuffPost Women has partnered with Rock The Vote, and more than 50 other women's media brands for a cross-brand effort to encourage and help women across the country to register to vote. Because, quite simply, #OurVoteCounts.
Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. [1] Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of Good Land (1981) and The Unsettling of America (1977).