From Hoes to Hoes: State Policy, Agricultural Mechanization, and Women's Work Under Central Planning

Mieke Meurs

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1994, vol. 26, issue 4, 99-117

Abstract: In this paper, I reexamine the finding that the collectivization of agriculture in Eastern Europe resulted in its feminization. Using Bulgarian data, I find that, despite an increase in women's formal labor force participation, women remained concentrated in the least-mechanized, low-wage jobs. I argue that the Bulgarian state did little to break the pattern of women's responsibility for household labor and weak income opportunities. Despite its claim of promoting gender equality, the Bulgarian state incorporated women's subordinate role into a development strategy based on the extraction of surplus from agriculture.

Date: 1994
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