... they carry on agriculture. Generally speaking, women’s labour predominates also in the peasant farm, and it is only in the big peasant and capitalist enterprises that men constitute the majority.
There are in general fewer women among wage-workers than among family workers. Obviously, the capitalist cultivators in all the groups are among those farmers who obtain the best labour forces. If the predominance of women over men can be taken as a measure of the straitened circumstances of the farmer and of the unsatisfactory state of a farm that has no possibility of using the best labour forces (and this supposition inevitably follows from all the data on women....
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