Sustainable Development and the Transformation of Female Rural Labor: the Case of Women Cattle Ranchers in Uruguay
| Autor: | Virginia Courdin, Gabriela Litre, Pastora Correa |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Sustentabilidade em Debate, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 55-75 (2014) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2177-7675 2179-9067 |
| DOI: | 10.18472/SustDeb.v5n2.2014.10714 |
| Popis: | Although rural woman are usually considered key to sustainable development at the international level, their work in cattle-raising continues to be under-recognized by most policymakers from Uruguay. This fact has forced many young women to migrate towards urban areas, leading to the “masculinization” of Uruguayan cattle-raising. National statistics tend to ignore unpaid activities performed by rural women – which they consider as “non-productive”-, as well as women’s evolving role in cattle-raising. By using semi-structured interviews and participant observation, this work analyzed: i) the organization of work of women in family farms devoted to beef and milk production Uruguay, including the role of chiefs, co-chiefs and passive observers, ii) their decision-making processes, and iii) their personal insights about cattle-raising. Five factors were identified as key to their work profiles: family relations, socio-economic status, size of the productive unit, presence of permanent employees, and formal land and/or cattle tenure. |
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