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Alston, Margaret – 1994
This paper examines the gender order that operates in rural areas of Australia, ensuring that women are accorded secondary status, that their contributions are discounted, and that their concerns are trivialized. Women are disadvantaged by patriarchal gender relations that dominate rural society and that are reinforced by ideologies of family and…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Farm Labor, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues