Central and Eastern Europe. An Opportunity or a Threat to European Integration?
Journal: Eastern European Countryside
Year: 2019

The authors discuss the main characteristics of women as farm operators using national sample studies conducted in 1994, 1999 and 2007.After an analysis of literature and various research results some hypotheses were formulated, i.e.: the better education of rural women than rural men, women as "unnatural" or "forced" farm operators due to various household circumstances, the "weaker" economic status of farms operated by women.Basic results of the studies carried out in 1994, 1999 and 2007 confi