Abstract
In a short overview of farm women's issues in Western and former socialist countries the author identifies more similarities than differences between these regions. The abandonment of socialist systems gives farm women of all European countries a chance to fight jointly for their rights. The description of farm women in Slovenia based on extensive empirical evidence serves as a data base for the suggestions about how their situation within the family, the farm, and in public life can be improved, and how gender equality as the final goal of rural women can be achieved.
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Ana Barbic is Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Dr. Barbic has carried out research and written on topics including family farming, the structure of agriculture, farm self-management, and the role of women in farming. She is the author of numerous papers, which have been published in several languages, and of two books. She was vice-president of the European Society of Rural Sociology from 1987–1993.
This is a revised and extended version of a paper originally presented at the seminar “Women's Studies and the Social Position of Women in Eastern and Western Europe,” European Network for Women's Studies, November 22 – 27, 1990, The Hague, The Netherlands.
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Barbic, A. Farm women in Slovenia: Endeavors for equality. Agric Hum Values 10, 13–25 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02217557
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