Gender Equality in Agriculture: Examining State Intervention in Australia and Northern Ireland
(2006) Gender Equality in Agriculture: Examining State Intervention in Australia and Northern Ireland. Social Policy and Society 5(2):pp. 199-206.
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Abstract
This paper is concerned with the extent to which the state offers potential for furthering farm women's status and rights. Using case studies of Australia and Northern Ireland, it examines the extent to which the state has intervened to address gender inequality in the agricultural sector. These two locations provide a particularly rich scope for analysis because while Australia has a long history of state feminism and an extensive legislative framework for pursing gender equity, this is not the case with Northern Ireland. At the same time, the restructuring of the state in Northern Ireland, following on from the Belfast Agreement of 1998 and the Northern Ireland Act of 1998, has generated new opportunities for state intervention regarding gender equality. Moreover, while gender is now for the first time being placed on the state agenda in Northern Ireland, gender reform is being wound back in Australia, as equity discourses are subsumed by the hegemonic discourses of neo-liberalism.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| RM Number: | 2007003194 |
| Status: | Published |
| Subjects: | 370000 Studies in Human Society > 379900 Other Studies in Human Society 370000 Studies in Human Society > 379900 Other Studies in Human Society > 379901 Gender Specific Studies 370000 Studies in Human Society |
| ID Code: | 12071 |
| Deposited By: | Woods, Stephen |
| Deposited On: | 17 January 2008 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1474746405002885 |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2006 Cambridge University Press |
| Copyright Statement: | Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |