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approximately 80% of all agricultural workers world-wide are women, according to UN Women; "yet, of all the job descriptions in the English language, few jobs have a more masculine connotation than the title 'farmer.' ... In most cultures, agriculture becomes 'men's work' when it progresses to the point of being a successful commercial industry" (Lee Egerstrom, St. Paul Pioneer Press).


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