Behind the glossy International Women’s Day pictures, women are still excluded in agriculture | Gabrielle Chan
Written by Gabrielle Chan from the Guardian
Ninety per cent of Australian farms are handed down to sons and the gender pay gap in agricultural services is 17% – so forgive me if I don’t want a cupcake
Sometimes, you just have to follow the money. Such as this past weekend, when my inbox pinged with emails celebrating International Women’s Day. Social media was awash with images of women in agriculture, astride headers, mustering or standing in crops and generally exuding authority.
Certainly, it looks like we’ve made it in key rural industries. If I followed the money, surely that would show women well on the way to parity.
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Written by Gabrielle Chan from the Guardian
Ninety per cent of Australian farms are handed down to sons and the gender pay gap in agricultural services is 17% – so forgive me if I don’t want a cupcake
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Sometimes, you just have to follow the money. Such as this past weekend, when my inbox pinged with emails celebrating International Women’s Day. Social media was awash with images of women in agriculture, astride headers, mustering or standing in crops and generally exuding authority.
Certainly, it looks like we’ve made it in key rural industries. If I followed the money, surely that would show women well on the way to parity.
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… we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask for your help. The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too.
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