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Some Aspects of the Feminization of Privately Owned Agriculture in Slovenia
Katja Vadnal
Sažetak
In Slovenia 31% of all the
economically active women work in
agriculture, which means that over
half the population employed in
agriculture, i. e. 53%, are women.
The relationship between the sexes
in the economically active
population is 15 : 10 in favour of
men. In agriculture the situation is
the opposite, and for every 10
women there are only 9 men.
Several factors of economic and
social nature resulted in the
feminization of Slovene agriculture,
of decisive importance among
which are: the general strategy of
socio-economic development, the
function of agriculture in that
strategy, structural changes in the
complete social and economic
system, and structural changes in
agriculture itself.
Katja Vadnal:
The process of feminization of
agriculture is limited only to
privately owned agriculture. On the
family farm the woman is
becoming more and more an
agricultural producer, and less and
less only a housewife. This is
especially so on mixed farms, on
which the man is the one to be
employed outside the farm on the
present level of development. This
results in the strengthening of the
contradictory situation that the
farm woman is taking over an
increasingly important part of
agricultural production, but that
she is nevertheless still alienated
from most socio-economic
activities.
An inquiry was carried out at the
beginning of 1976 with the purpose
of establishing the role of the woman on an intentionally chosen
population on mixed farms. On
those farms the woman were of an
average age of somewhat over 38,
which limited their migratory
possibilities. Working 10 hours a
day in agricultural production and
5 hours a day in the house, they
did all the necessary work in
vegetable growing and pig and
poultry breeding, and cattle
breeding is also increasingly being
left over to women. They are still
relatively little engaged only in
vine and fruit growing.
Because of their great participation
in direct work in agriculture, the
women also take part in the
organization and preparation of
work, but as a rule they do not
represent the farm in relations with
third persons; that is the function
of the man — the head of the
household. This resulted in the
practice that the men become
cooperative members, and that
women-farmers are regarded
exclusively as housewives, and thus
not included in the self-management
organization of farmers.
To overcome this practice, the new
law on the association of farmers
determines that every member of
the household engaged in
agriculture is a subject of
association; and this also includes
the women and youth, who are not
the owners of the farm.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
119333
URI
Datum izdavanja:
4.6.1979.
Posjeta: 824 *