Dove (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} hija_paloma) wrote,@ 2009-10-19 17:30:00 |
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Sometimes I forget.
Secretary of State Clinton recently had an article published in The Guardian about food security, in which she said, "Consider the world's typical small farmer. She..."
And I thought, "Oh, huh."
Because even though I grew up on a farm, I still--like, apparently, most everybody in America--think of farmers as men. Women, as we know, are farmers' wives.
Except most of the farmers in the world are women.
Shakesville has a photo post of farmers the world around: gorgeous pictures.
(One not-so-small quibble: all of the farmers from the US--and England, Ireland, Scotland, & Wales--are white. Being as it's Shakesville, I'm confident this was an issue of available photos and not selection bias, but it still bears mentioning.) Reading for comprehension fail, carry on.
Secretary of State Clinton recently had an article published in The Guardian about food security, in which she said, "Consider the world's typical small farmer. She..."
And I thought, "Oh, huh."
Because even though I grew up on a farm, I still--like, apparently, most everybody in America--think of farmers as men. Women, as we know, are farmers' wives.
Except most of the farmers in the world are women.
Shakesville has a photo post of farmers the world around: gorgeous pictures.
