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With a young family, Steph Towers was told not to run for a board position. “We are shoved into a box by people who tell us we don’t have time.”
Guide Business

A question of equity

Ag corporations are making strides toward gender equity. What will it take on the farm?

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Reading Time: 8 minutes In our November issue, Saskatchewan farmer Jean Harrington triggered terrific online response — and some pushback — with her blunt assessment that today’s young farm women aren’t doing enough to break down barriers for women in agriculture. So we want to know, what exactly would gender equity on the farm look like? “I actually understand […] Read more
“We thought we won the war, but we dropped the ball,” Jean Harrington says. “Today we are not one step further along in the big picture with women in agriculture… and often we’ve done it to ourselves.”
Guide Business

Why aren’t farm women fighting harder?

It’s time to win back the ground we've have lost in the past 30 years

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Reading Time: 9 minutes In the November issue of Country Guide, Saskatchewan farmer Leigh Rosengren challenged women to have an honest conversation about the career barriers individual women face living on farms in rural Canada. Further investigation reveals we need a hard look at the agriculture industry as a whole. Despite decades of work, women are still largely shut […] Read more
In walking beside and in learning with your family and team, the curious leader builds resilience and invites growth.
Opinion

Trailblazing (Part 2)

The curious leader — trailblazing women farmers

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Reading Time: 3 minutes When talking leadership for Country Guide, female trailblazers have repeatedly told me it was a real benefit to them that they had a curious parent in their earlier years. They also rank their own curiosity as a key contributor to their success. The value of curiosity also came up repeatedly when I spoke to global […] Read more
Women are talking with their families to start practising what they learned, and to take more of a team approach on the farm.
Guide Business

A better agenda

Workshops for farm women are teaching both men and women across the country how to score more with business education

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Whether you are male or female, you know you need more business know-how to thrive in today’s ag world. Also regardless of whether you’re male or female, you’re probably actively seeking to increase those skills and your knowledge base. Everyone is upping their game. It’s part of the farmer’s basic job description. Maybe, though, the […] Read more
Young couple holding hands in the wheat field on sunny summer day.
Guide Life

Rebalancing the workload

Unfair division of labour takes its toll on farm couples

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Even though more than 80 per cent of women now work outside the home, the bulk of child care and household chores still fall to women. The most recent stats show that women are doing twice as much child care and one-and-a-half times as much housework as men. Is it really so different on the […] Read more
female farmer with tractor
Guide Business

Where are the farm women?

The research is incontrovertible. Diversity creates strength. So why aren’t we making greater strides at getting farm women involved?

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Reading Time: 4 minutes I’m one of a dozen women sitting around a long boardroom table. The surroundings are completely unfamiliar and slightly intimidating. We politely watch a video and quietly chat with one another about our farms, succession, our families and, of course, the weather. The woman across from me taps tentatively on the little microphone that seems […] Read more

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