Frauen in der kleinbäuerlichen Landwirtschaft

Agritourism – From Additional Income to Livelihood Strategy and Rural Development

“…The data used for this article are drawn from a longitudinal study of farming women conducted in 1977, 1997 and 2007 [7,8]. A large-scale base line and two follow-up studies were carried out in 63 municipalities of Bavaria, Southern Germany.…”

“…They showed an extraordinary mutability. They accepted a slow but continuous change and modernized with traditional means, as Heide Inhetveen and Margret Blasche [8] (p. 232) had described earlier as a result of the base line study. The farming families were sceptical about rapid progress.…”

“…Their involvement should also be understood as a desire for self-realization and -following Hans Joas -for realizing their creative potential as well as their social competence [5]. The feminization of agriculture as commercialization of various spheres of the farm's 'female economy' increases the number of activities farming women enjoy [8] (p.209ff). The desire to organize and control their own work and to 'be their own boss' is an overriding concern for Martha B and her daughter-in-law.…”

Gender Segregation at Vocational Schools – Women Farm Apprentices’ Dilemma

“…Which role a woman on a farm performs seems to be handled very flexibly. In cases of necessity, it seems that women are allowed to extend their expected role without neglecting their traditional duties (Inhetveen and Blasche 1983;Janshen et al 1984;Wonneberger et al 1991; Burg and Endeveld 1994;Whatmore et al 1994).But if women do not respect the boundary of the traditional women's sphere on the farm and try to alter their roles in a more extreme way by refusing their traditional duties and establishing a new role for themselves through the professionalization of those jobs on the farm which are conventionally assumed by men, they experience that farming in one's own right still means something different for women than it does for men in our society. Until now, women farmers have had to justify their demands for non-stereotypical spheres of work and responsibility on the farm (Vonderach et al 1993;Brandth 1994;Haugen 1994;Schmitt 1997).…”

“…Which role a woman on a farm performs seems to be handled very flexibly. In cases of necessity, it seems that women are allowed to extend their expected role without neglecting their traditional duties (Inhetveen and Blasche 1983;Janshen et al 1984;Wonneberger et al 1991; Burg and Endeveld 1994;Whatmore et al 1994).…”