WG19 – Gendered work and working gender
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WG19 – Gendered work and working gender

WG19 – Gendered work and working gender

This working group explores the gendered dimensions of global agricultural labour, focusing on the specific challenges women face, including low wages, limited access to land and resources, precarious employment, and heightened health risks. It also engages with the data, methods, and theoretical frameworks needed to study gendered agricultural labour, highlighting the importance of intersectional, feminist, and transnational approaches. The aim is to bring together gender and labour researchers to share ongoing research on gendered work and conditions in global agricultural labour, identify key research gaps, advance gender sensitive methodologies and explore theoretical approaches.

Convenors: Maya Rastouil (UMR LISST Dynamiques Rurales, DYNAFOR, France), Eva-Marie Meemken (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Anna Kröplin (BFH-HAFL), Celestina Heepen (ETH Zurich), Emma Frison (UMR LISST Dynamiques Rurales), James Hogge (UMR LISST Dynamiques Rurales, Institut de l’Elevage), Johanna Jacobi (ETH Zurich), Katharina Krumbiegel (JRC), Manon Caudton-Fournier (ENSFEA – UMR LISST Dynamiques Rurales, VetAgro Sup – UMR Territoires), Marie Kammer (ETH Zurich), Marine Jouvin (ETH Zurich), Martina Bozzola (FiBL Switzerland), Martina Occelli (Cornell/ETH Zurich), Nora Komposch (University of Zurich), Patrick Illien (ETH Zurich), Prisca Pfammatter (University of Bern), Regula Züger (FiBL), Sandra Contzen (BFH-HAFL), Sophie Henrotte (UC Louvain), Zazie von Davier (Thünen Institute) 

Global patterns of intra-household and gender data gaps in national agriculture census    
Martina Occelli    
 

TERRITORY, WORK, AND HEALTH IN AGROECOLOGY: GENDER ISSUES IN THE CHALLENGES OF SUSTAINABILITY FOR BRAZIL AND PORTUGAL    
Sandra Gemma, Liliana Cunha    
 

Invisible but Essential: A Phenomenological Analysis of Women’s Embodied Labour in Accra’s Informal Food Service Sector Using Photovoice    
Patrick Illien    
 

Latina Farmworkers Navigating Childcare: Exploring Challenges and Resources    
Rebecca Som Castellano, Lisa Meierotto, Natalie Garner    
 

Hard-to-Reach Workers, Hard-to-Fill Data Gaps: Lessons from Web-Based Respondent-Driven Sampling in Swiss Horticulture    
Celestina Heepen, Eva-Marie Meemken    
 

The gender of the researchers as a prism for accessing data in agricultural fieldwork    
Paule Yacoube, Edgar Perrin    
 

The (Non)Performativity of Social Sustainability: Queer Farmworkers in Switzerland    
Prisca Pfammatter, Susan Thieme    
 

« Force autant que t’es con, ça ne marchera pas » (“The harder you push, the stupider you look—it won’t work”) : The Making of Agricultural Masculinities in Sciences and Techniques of Agro-equipment    
Manon CAUDRON FOURNIER    

 

Women's wine, women of the vineyards: reconfiguring femininity by working on wine farms in the Loire Valley.    
Camille Hochedez    
 

A driving masculinity : the commitment of outsourced workers in arable farming    
Paule Yacoub    
 

Invisibility and Recognition of Women’s Agricultural Work in the Bengal Delta: Between Empowerment and Constraint    
Emilie CREMIN, Jinat HOSSAIN   
 

Prioritising business success over the financial security of women in agriculture    
Anna Kröplin, Sandra Contzen    
 

Gender-Gaps in German Agriculture - what we know regarding female labour, income and participation    
JULIANE ZAZIE VON DAVIER    
 

Working Beyond the Field: Gender, Social Reproduction and Seasonal Farm Labour in Spain    
Nora Komposch    
 

Gender and labour management strategies in field crops: Evidence from Belgium    
Sophie Henrotte, Goedele Van den Broeck    
 

Caring for Nature by Caring for People – The Invisible Relational Sustainability Labour of Landfrauen    
Johanna Jacobi, Jasmin Schmid    
 

Legitimation in a “contested territory”: an intersectional approach to vegetable crop association knowledge    
Maya Rastouil    
 

The Invisible Hours: Gendered Time Use and the ‘Double Burden’ in India’s Agri-Food Systems    
Rumbidzai Ndoro, Valentina Costa, Erdgin Mane, Clara Park    
 

Publication date: 11 September 2026 | By: I Avelange