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I agree Kelly, most of the time it really doesn't seem as though women are given credit for the amount of work they do in the farming family. Every job on a farm is equally important in making sure that the farm runs. Without one task no matter who is responsible for it, it is necessary. -- Kellye Sorber | I agree Kelly, most of the time it really doesn't seem as though women are given credit for the amount of work they do in the farming family. Every job on a farm is equally important in making sure that the farm runs. Without one task no matter who is responsible for it, it is necessary. -- Kellye Sorber | ||
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| + | If women were to be seen as best friends of their husbands, shared a division of labor and contributed so much to the family, how could they be viewed as "dumb, dumb, dumb"? Compared to the urban middle-class families in Mintz& Kellogg, it seems like the women of farming families on the Great Plains had more fulfillment in their work. At the same time, they may have had a harder life and higher expectations for contributing to and producing for the family than urban women. --Amanda | ||
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