Woman's Farmer Level 5 Writing
Woman's Farmer Level 5 Writing
Woman's Farmer Level 5 Writing
2 Discussion
Although woman represent 43% of the worlds agricultural work force many
of them find it hard to make a mark within the industry. Woman produce up to 80% of
the crops grown but only own about 1% of the land. Most of this land is also the less
fertile land that the men did not want to use. Woman also find it harder to gain funding
from governments than men do. Woman also find less market opportunities and are
often confined to local markets where produce does not sell for as high a price than in
more of an urban market (Standard Bank, 2014). Within Japan woman farmers are often
viewed as only wives to the farmers even though they have always outnumbered their
male coworkers. Within the Japanese Agricultural Cooperatives association only 998 of
the 18,910 members are woman which only adds up to 5.3%. This idea, however, is a
typical view throughout Japan (Iijima, 2015).
3.1 conclusion
from this research it has been seen that over the resent years there has been an
improvement in the role of woman within the agriculture industry in Japan. However,
there is still a long way to go before the problem has been fixed. With the declining
interest in the agricultural industry within Japan the industry will have to hire and
support more female workers to fill in the lack of workers within the industry. There is
also a lot of underlying issues regarding sexism within Japan as a whole and without a
change in the cultural views of Japan this will not change anytime soon.
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