"Research programme on rural women and youth" -

"Research programme on rural women and youth"

by
Prof. Juan Manuel García Bartolomé
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Spain

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

ORGANISATION DES NATIONS UNIES POUR L'ALIMENTATION ET L'AGRICULTURE

ORGANIZACION DE LAS NACIONES UNIDAS PARA LA AGRICULTURA Y LA --ALIMENTACION

ECA:WRD/94/6
July 1994

Item 10 of the
Provisional Agenda

EUROPEAN COMMISSION ON AGRICULTURE (ECA)

7th Session of the ECA Working Party on Women and the Agricultural Family in Rural Development Athens, Greece, 18-21 October 1994

W/V 3324

Contents

I. Introduction

II. Sociological research methodology

III. Most salient findings

III.1 The rural woman in official statistics

III.1.1 The work of the rural woman in the Active Population Survey (APS)

III.1.2 The rural woman in the Agricultural Census of 1989

III.2 Main socio-cultural characteristics of farm women

III.2.1 Age

III.2.2 Level of education

III.2.3 Women and work on the family farm

III.2.4 Farm women and the future of the family holding and rural environment

IV. Main conclusions