Reading Time: 6 minutes By five years of age, girls have already begun to develop self-limiting beliefs. They stop believing that they can be or do anything. And they may never get that belief back. It’s a phenomenon that was identified in a 2017 report from Plan International, and it has also became well known as the Dream Gap, […] Read more
The Dream Gap
Bright Ideas: Many farms feel they treat their boys and girls equitably. Sadly, our columnist finds, the evidence doesn’t agree
Women and men in conversation, and at work
Guide Books Review: 'You just don't understand,' and 'Talking from 9 to 5'
Reading Time: 3 minutes You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in ConversationTalking From 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work By Deborah Tannen(Morrow Paperbooks – $20 each) Men and women approach conversations from different linguistic landscapes, and this leads to opposite interpretations of the same words or intentions, and subsequent misunderstandings. “Misunderstandings arise because the styles are […] Read more
Comment: Answering the ‘Call for Action” – Holding space for each other
Reading Time: 3 minutes Thank you Angela Straathof for your great comments about the perception of agriculture only having room for women who fight. In this coming meeting season, I challenge us all to invite new people to the table, ask the quiet ones for feedback, support someone who is a ‘helper’, redirect the ‘fighters’ to use their passion […] Read more
Comment: Why does agriculture only have room for women who fight?
Reading Time: 3 minutes A recent article ‘Why aren’t farm women fighting harder?,‘ for the December 2019 issue of Country Guide has garnered a significant amount of attention online and on social media. Upon reading our article, Angela Straathof wrote the response below as a “call to action” for the agricultural industry. – Country Guide staff “Be bold. Speak […] Read more
Farmer Barbie?
Is Farmer Barbie just another way to keep our daughters out of the business of farming, or is something more serious going on?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Next time you check out the toy aisle you might be surprised to find a Farmer Barbie doll on the shelves. She comes ready to farm dressed in a plaid shirt, denim overalls and rubber boots, with a red tractor, pink trailer, and an assortment of farm animals. Farmer Barbie is one of a line […] Read more
Are agrologist salaries on the money?
Salary survey also examined if a gender pay gap exists in agriculture
Reading Time: 6 minutes This past winter the Saskatchewan Institute of Agrologists (SIA) released a salary survey that pegs the overall average salary of Saskatchewan agrologists (not including bonus) at $84,629. For the first time in agriculture, though, this survey separated out pay by gender, and showed a gap of up to $20,000 in certain age categories. The numbers […] Read more
Preventing domestic violence
Reading Time: 4 minutes Let’s pause for a moment to let this grim statistic sink in. Every six days a woman in Canada is murdered by her partner. Domestic violence is far too prevalent. Just in the last five years, more than one million people in Canada have reported being either physically or sexually assaulted by their partner or […] Read more
A place for women
Yes, many women are making progress on the farm. But not enough women, and not fast enough
Reading Time: 4 minutes Women may have been the first farmers, but it has been a long trek to climb to the top in today’s agriculture. Finally, however, women are making progress. Census data show between 10 and 20 per cent of farms are operated by women. Plus, on many more farms, women are key players taking on the […] Read more
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