Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Women Farmers are Invisible
http://web.archive.org/web/20040214085507/http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/oct98/22_39_068.html
I took a different approach when searching for articles dealing with women and politics. I found this interesting and something new to read rather than the typical news we usually hear or read about.
In this article it describes how women are becoming main actors in feeding the world and most of their work is barely noticed and their work is extremely underpaid. On a global scale, women cultivate more than half of all the food that is grown. According to this article, studies have shown that when women farmers have access to resources such as land, credit, technology training and marketing, they are more productive than men farmers.
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This article was very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI think it could certainly be used to encourage people in the U.S., especially women, to not only attempt to make environments of gender more equal in the States, but in countries where women are still not permitted to obtain loans or own land. After all, if all women were at least on the same level globally, it may be easier to make some of the changes women are looking for like equal pay in the U.S.
That is the problem for most of these women in other nations, they can’t even obtain loans or own land, which makes it even more unlikely for them to obtain something that seems like it should be such a blatant given like earn the same pay as men.
Another interesting fact is that after reading the article, I visited the World Food Day blog (http://www.worldfooddayusa.org/blog) and found that nearly every single picture of farmers or people cultivating food were women.