It is very much a mans world: gender representation in agricultural policy and administration

Samanta, Aritree

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“…Farm women, which as we noted above continue to be the primary caregivers, have historically been sidelined from leadership positions in farm organizations and political spheres. Given the important role of farm organizations in shaping the narrative for agricultural programming and policies, this means that decisions around which challenges should be addressed and how, along with how resources should be allocated have largely been made with little to no input from women and with little understanding of women's needs and realities ( 52 – 54 , 56 , 87 , 88 , 95 ).…”

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Childcare for farm families: A key strategy to keep children safe yet largely absent from farm programming

Becot

Inwood

Rissing

2022

Front. Public Health

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Despite long-standing safety recommendations that non-working children be supervised off the worksite by an adult, little is known about farm families' ability to comply. We conducted a review of 92 documents and 36 key informant interviews in three U.S. states (Ohio, Vermont, and Wisconsin) to assess how farm service providers and farm organizations address the intersection of children and childcare with farm work and farm safety in programming. Through their programming, these two groups deeply influence farm families' social systems, affecting farm safety and farm business decisions. Study design and result interpretations were grounded in the women in agriculture literature, which examines the needs and realities of farm women (often the primary caregivers). Most documents reviewed did not address children, and even fewer addressed childcare. Interviews confirm findings of the document review. Despite awareness that farm families juggle work and children, few interviewees explicitly integrated children and childcare topics due to a messy and complex set of individual- and structural-level factors. We identified four possible, overlapping explanations for this tension: valuation of care vs. farm work; farm programming's traditional emphasis on the farm business; alignment of the programming with the agrarian ideal of the family farm; and the mismatch between farm programming scope, resources available, and childcare challenges. We conclude with two main implications for farm safety programs and farm children safety. First, farm programming's reinforcement of the social and cultural expectations regarding children's involvement in the farm operation from a young age could be counterproductive from a farm safety standpoint and miss an opportunity to provide alternative models of childrearing. Second, the invisibility of the lived realities of raising children may lead farm parents to distrust farm programming and deter them from participating.

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Childcare for farm families: A key strategy to keep children safe yet largely absent from farm programming

Becot

Inwood

Rissing

2022

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Gender Ramifications of a Weberian Bureaucracy: A Feminist Appraisal of the United States Department of Agriculture

Viswanath

Samanta

2022

Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

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In the field of public administration, a feminist appraisal of Weberâs bureaucracy has transpired gradually. In this article, we examine the gender ramifications of Weberian bureaucracy, with a specific focus on the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Using the feminist critique of the field at large, and the framework of bureau men and settlement women in particular, we critically analyze Weberâs ideas of an ideal bureaucracy. Our central contribution is intermeshing Stiverâs critical perspectives with the theoretical frames of feminist phenomenology and feminist standpoint theory to craft a feminist model for appraising the agricultural bureaucracy in the United States. In doing so, we demonstrate how women farmersâ and landownersâ approach to agriculture and farm management is fundamentally different in values and orientation than the USDAâs Weberian bureaucratic approach which dictates the design and implementation of agricultural policy.

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It is very much a mans world: gender representation in agricultural policy and administration

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Childcare for farm families: A key strategy to keep children safe yet largely absent from farm programming

Childcare for farm families: A key strategy to keep children safe yet largely absent from farm programming

Gender Ramifications of a Weberian Bureaucracy: A Feminist Appraisal of the United States Department of Agriculture

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