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Female farm operators — attitudes about social support in their retirement years
Author(s)	M Jean Turner
Journal title	Journal of Women & Aging, vol 8, nos 3/4, 1996
Pages	pp 113-127
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Older women ; Agricultural Industry ; Retirement ; Attitude ; Informal care ; Domestic services [domiciliary] ; Rural areas ; Social surveys ; Literature reviews ; United States of America.
Annotation	Women who have spent their working lives in farming may be particularly at risk of inadequate planning and support in later years. This study examined the acceptability of a set of in-home and live-in social support options potentially available to 151 women farmers/farmworkers. For married women, help from a spouse was most acceptable; the only other acceptable option was having a child come by to help. The study also examined factors differentiating women who regarded one option as acceptable, and those who did not. The findings suggest the need for further research related to the growing numbers of such women and their preparations for later years.
Accession Number	CPA-970124007 A
Classmark	BD: X4: G3: DP: P6: NG: RL: 3F: 64A: 7T
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