Agriculture is one of the most precarious professions, being vulnerable to weather extremes and animal disease. As crises hit the agricultural sector, a growing awareness and concern for the mental wellbeing of farmers developed. Economic decline, climate change and culling animals all have a profound impact on affected farmers. To date, research has tended to focus on the farmer, typically a man, and not the farm family. This article considers the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on men and women on farms. Using qualitative interviews and focus groups, the impact of the pandemic on men's and women's work and social life within the family is explored. We found a differential impact. For farmers, usually men, COVID-19 was generally a positive experience both in terms of work and social life. For women, on the other hand, COVID-19 was found to have a negative impact on their work and social life. While gender equality in agriculture persists, women's equality in the workplace has advanced. However, with the pandemic, women worked from home on the farm. They experienced a regression in gender equality with traditional expectations of responsibility for childcare and housework returning. In addition, their emotional and 'mental' labour increased. We conclude that in the future, the mental health of men and women on farms needs to be considered when crises occur. Crises impact the farm family and different members of the family in dissimilar ways.
{"title":"Agriculture, COVID-19 and mental health: Does gender matter?","authors":"Hannah Budge, Sally Shortall","doi":"10.1111/soru.12408","DOIUrl":"10.1111/soru.12408","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Agriculture is one of the most precarious professions, being vulnerable to weather extremes and animal disease. As crises hit the agricultural sector, a growing awareness and concern for the mental wellbeing of farmers developed. Economic decline, climate change and culling animals all have a profound impact on affected farmers. To date, research has tended to focus on the farmer, typically a man, and not the farm family. This article considers the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on men and women on farms. Using qualitative interviews and focus groups, the impact of the pandemic on men's and women's work and social life within the family is explored. We found a differential impact. For farmers, usually men, COVID-19 was generally a positive experience both in terms of work and social life. For women, on the other hand, COVID-19 was found to have a negative impact on their work and social life. While gender equality in agriculture persists, women's equality in the workplace has advanced. However, with the pandemic, women worked from home on the farm. They experienced a regression in gender equality with traditional expectations of responsibility for childcare and housework returning. In addition, their emotional and 'mental' labour increased. We conclude that in the future, the mental health of men and women on farms needs to be considered when crises occur. Crises impact the farm family and different members of the family in dissimilar ways.</p>","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9874928/pdf/SORU-9999-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10587224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Conor Hammersley, D. Meredith, N. Richardson, P. Carroll, J. McNamara
{"title":"Mental health, societal expectations and changes to the governance of farming: Reshaping what it means to be a ‘man’ and ‘good farmer’ in rural Ireland","authors":"Conor Hammersley, D. Meredith, N. Richardson, P. Carroll, J. McNamara","doi":"10.1111/soru.12411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43223736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rural places and planning. Stories from the Global Countryside. Bristol, Policy Press. vii+175","authors":"M. J. Rivera","doi":"10.1111/soru.12410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12410","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42096585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Institutional erosion and new strategies: changing contexts for learning in agriculture in Northern Sweden","authors":"Cecilia Waldenström","doi":"10.1111/soru.12409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48577183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Prosperi, F. Galli, Olga M. Moreno-Pérez, Y. Chiffoleau, S. Grando, P. Karanikolas, M. Rivera, G. Goussios, T. Pinto-Correia, G. Brunori
{"title":"“Disentangling the diversity of small farms’ business models in Euro‐Mediterranean contexts: a resilience perspective”","authors":"P. Prosperi, F. Galli, Olga M. Moreno-Pérez, Y. Chiffoleau, S. Grando, P. Karanikolas, M. Rivera, G. Goussios, T. Pinto-Correia, G. Brunori","doi":"10.1111/soru.12407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12407","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44222759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resurgent Back‐to‐the‐land and the Cultivation of a Renewed Countryside","authors":"Emil Sandström","doi":"10.1111/soru.12406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12406","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48970987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Behind a fluttering veil of trust: The dynamics of public concerns over farm animal welfare in Norway","authors":"U. Kjærnes, S. Borgen, C. Thorjussen","doi":"10.1111/soru.12405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48645472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca Wheeler, M. Lobley, Jude McCann, Alex Phillimore
{"title":"“It's a lonely old world”: Developing a multidimensional understanding of loneliness in farming","authors":"Rebecca Wheeler, M. Lobley, Jude McCann, Alex Phillimore","doi":"10.1111/soru.12399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12399","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44688321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘You have to keep it going’: Relational values and social sustainability in upland agriculture","authors":"Jack McCarthy, D. Meredith, C. Bonnin","doi":"10.1111/soru.12402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12402","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48987701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do producers imagine consumers? Connecting farm and fork through a cultural repertoire of consumer sovereignty","authors":"Shyon Baumann, J. Johnston, Merin Oleschuk","doi":"10.1111/soru.12401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12401","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48933996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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