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[From: IN%"elevine%world.std.com@UICVM.UIC.EDU" "Eugene Levine" 23-FEB-1994 06:08:45.28 [To: IN%"h-rural@uicvm.uic.edu" [Subj: Farming and Women Dear friends - the moderator of the American Studies list suggested cross posting the question below to h-rural. Would anyone here care to add some thoughts? I am not subscribed to this list, so e-mail to the below address would be greatly appreciated. Gene Levine elevine@world.std.com ====================================== A good friend from Australia was talking about farming and farmers yesterday, and she kept using "he" to refer to farmers. She defended this usage byu saying that virtually all "farmers" were men. I disagreed, and suggested that modern farmwork is pretty evenly divided between the sexes (though housework on the farm may still be "traditionally" divided.) So my feeling - summarized - is that women and men both do the agricultural work (sowing, reaping, equipment usage and maintenance) on a modern US farm. I also said that while farm ownership might once have been held by the men, the longer lives of women probably meant that farm property is largely held in womens' names. Any comments, opinions, or observations? Many Thanks Gene Levine elevine@world.std.com
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