Feminist theory has always been divided between the recognition of the specific position of
women and their assimilation into existing institutional structures. We confront a similar
dilemma in the agrarian transition. The position of this article is that we should not have choose
between supporting women's roles as food producers by taking into account the existing
gender roles and the time and mobility constraints that women are imposed, or instead
challenging those roles and ignoring those constraints, to make women more like men and
ensure that they have the same opportunities as their male counterparts. The constraints are
real, and they will take time to be removed. As long as they subsist, we must ensure at least
that the choices of women within the food systems can expand. Whether they decide to act
within the existing gender roles or whether they seek to escape the constraints these roles
currently impose on them, the choices they make in the various contexts in which they operate
should not be choices by default: only by removing the constraints they face, and by shaping
pathways towards alternatives to the current situation in which they face multiple barriers, can
this be ensured.
Feminist theory has always been divided between the recognition of the specific position ofwomen and their assimilation into existing institutional structures. We confront a similardilemma in the agrarian transition. The position of this article is that we should not have choosebetween supporting women's roles as food producers by taking into account the existinggender roles and the time and mobility constraints that women are imposed, or insteadchallenging those roles and ignoring those constraints, to make women more like men andensure that they have the same opportunities as their male counterparts. The constraints arereal, and they will take time to be removed. As long as they subsist, we must ensure at leastthat the choices of women within the food systems can expand. Whether they decide to actwithin the existing gender roles or whether they seek to escape the constraints these rolescurrently impose on them, the choices they make in the various contexts in which they operateshould not be choices by default: only by removing the constraints they face, and by shapingpathways towards alternatives to the current situation in which they face multiple barriers, canthis be ensured.
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