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RURAL women I’m going of mother earth, which I don’t want to find the string in the seeding when I sow. THE FEMINIZATION of poverty in Europe there are 9 million people who work full-time in agriculture, which 35 percent are women, while only 13 percent appears as primarily responsible for the farm and, they also tend to be type small and marginal farms. For countries of southern Europe, Ireland and Austria are the most significant percentages. The proportion of women employed in agriculture has its highest levels in Greece, followed by Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and finally, United Kingdom. The category of family support, brings together significant components of women in Greece and Spain.

In what refers to working hours, are rural women that presented the most extensive of the whole of the European Union. Continue to learn more with: Bulgaria. By countries, they stand out for the number of hours a week, Greece, Portugal, Spain and Ireland all of them are exceeded 40 hours. Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa describes an additional similar source. Agricultural female employment is concentrated in our country in the Cantabrian coast, in the two Castillas and Extremadura. Furthermore, aside from the specific situation in Europe, while there are some huge differences at the global level between the different groups of rural women, it can advance some very general data that will help to understand the reality of a social sectors for the most part, characterized by a situation of marginality. The feminization of poverty appears as a global phenomenon that has a special rural incidence. Women made much of the hardest work in the most marginal sectors and receive significantly lower wages than men. It is considered that women make 70 percent of the agricultural work in sub-Saharan Africa, 40 per cent in South Asia and 25 percent in Latin America. Some of the projects on above women in the rural world have as main objective to expose the specific problems of rural women, whose reality is often hidden within the analysis of more general type.

Those jobs often conclude with presentations of letters or platforms for the equality of opportunities for women in rural areas, that establish a diagnosis of the situation of rural women and designed a set of proposals to contribute to the more effective participation of women in natural development strategies. These letters or platforms reveal a State of affairs not for ignored no longer urgent remedy. It is necessary to return to a collective role forgotten and marginalized but fundamental for the future of the rural world. And as the poet said: woman, do not despair, / that one day will come / in that you are who you are. Francisco Arias Solis Si you want peace, work for justice. For peace and freedom and Forum free Internet portal.