There are farms managed by women in all the project countries, and the share of farms managed by women varies from 10 to 27 percent. The most common division of labour in the Baltic countries and Poland is for both the women and men to work on the farm. In Croatia and Bulgaria men often work outside the farm in paid employment, while women are working on the small farm in non mechanized agriculture. Entrepreneurship on the farm is quite rare. In all the project countries, with the exception of Slovenia, rural women work on cooperative and state farms both seasonally and all year round, if work is available.
Rural women work as paid labourers on cooperative and state farms in Bulgaria.
The division of labour between women and men inside the farms and families is a mixture of both traditional and modern in the CEE and the reference countries. There are separate activities for men and women, but also activities carried out together. Typical men's activities in CEE and reference countries are mechanical fieldwork and forest work. Typical women's activities are infant care, household work and work in the garden. There are also some cultural and historical features in the division of labour.