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Farm women and their work: why is it not recognised?
- Source :
- Journal of Sociology; Mar1998, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p23-34, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 1998
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Abstract
- This paper examines the lack of recognition and devaluing of the work of Australian farm women by examining the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) report, Women on Farms (Gooday 1995). The paper argues that the work of ABARE and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is fundamentally flawed by their definition of what constitutes valid work and by their perception that farm family labour can be differentiated by gender such that the work of men is accorded greater value while the work of women is reduced or ignored. By examining the nature of farm family labour, analysing the notions of work and by incorporating a radical feminist framework to this analysis, this paper challenges ABS and ABARE to reexamine their position on the issue of work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- WOMEN in agriculture
RURAL families
FARM produce
FEMINISM
FAMILIES
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14407833
- Volume :
- 34
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Sociology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 16315854
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/144078339803400103