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More stark statistics demonstrate gender inequality in opportunities and resources.
The 2023 State of Women’s Entrepreneurship annual report shows the harsh reality in terms of gender inequality in Canada across all sectors. According to the report (by the Women’s Entrepreneurship...
How to ‘drop the ball’ part two: Introducing MEL
by Angela Lovell When Tiffany author and speaker, Tiffany Dufu realized she was suffering from Home Control Disease (HCD) – a compulsion to have to micromanage her household, career and life, and it...
Women need to learn how to ‘drop the ball’ rather than trying to do it all.
by Angela Lovell It is only because I am a woman myself that I can get away with saying that women are, oftentimes, their own worst enemy when it comes to ensuring a more equitable distribution of...
Valuing women’s unpaid work
by Angela Lovell When it comes to a family farm or business, we have all heard the phrase that ‘fair isn’t necessarily equal’. It’s often applied to the farm transition process and the distribution...
Challenging gendered role stereotypes
by Angela Lovell In agriculture, particularly when it comes to the division of roles that women and men assume on the family farm, they are often still allocated according to habit or tradition. As...
What is women’s work?
by Angela Lovell Women span the career spectrum in agriculture from hands-on farm owners and managers to the unpaid extra of pair of hands that runs to get parts or takes a turn checking the cows at...
Talking Clearly
Have you ever been in a meeting where someone says something to you using an acronym or a term and you don’t know what they mean? We use acronyms and terms, and emojis on a daily basis but we need...
What does a credibility crisis look like?
By April M. Stewart, Special MWAF Contributor As the creator of and blogger at The Farmer's Survival Guide for Women, I highlight stories, resources, and actions to help women in Canada's...
How you can up your storytelling game to help your ag business
By April M. Stewart, Special MWAF Contributor Stories affect our brains in fascinating and peculiar ways. There are four main activities going on when you hear a story: Neural coupling: When...
What to do when conversations get tough
By April M. Stewart, Special MWAF Contributor Farmers are no strangers to difficult conversations, both online and off, with consumers, customers, suppliers, employees and family business members....
How to respond to questions you don’t want to answer
By April M. Stewart, Special MWAF Contributor If there’s one thing as certain as Mother Nature is uncertain, it’s that farmers are asked difficult and challenging questions daily. North American...
The power of curiosity
By April M. Stewart, Special MWAF Contributor Curiosity is one of those enduring human traits stemming from our prehistoric survival skills. Evolutionarily speaking, being inquisitive helped...
