SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY OF WOMEN IN RURAL AREAS – TRENDS

• Main Author: Laura Płatkowska-Prokopczyk
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Life Sciences in Poznań 2014-06-01
• Series: Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development
• Subjects: social and professional activity of rural women; the labour market; demographic changes; changes in the level of education; manifestations of entrepreneurship
• Online Access: http://www.jard.edu.pl/tom32/zeszyt2/art_12.pdf

The aim of the study was to determine what had changed in recent years in the field of social and economic activity of rural women, and to determine whether the manifestations of adaptation to changing circumstances are visible. In connection with disabilities in the labour market in rural areas and at the same time increase of the educational aspirations of women, a high risk of losing the potential of rural women emerges. Lack of solution to these problems may lead to weakening of the human potential in rural, both by deepening the isolation of rural areas compared to urban space and outflow of the most active inhabitants seeking opportunities for personal and professional development.