Womens's farm/ranch task participation : time, importance, and factors influencing time spent

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Gallatin County farm/ranch couples were surveyed to determine differences between wives' and husbands' perceptions of hours of farm/ranch task participation by the wives by use of paired t tests of means for each of nine categories of farm/ranch work.Differences between wives' and husbands' perceptions of importance of the tasks performed by the wives were tested by use of the sign test.Further, analysis of variance tests were employed for each of the nine task categories to determine if there was a difference between the mean number of hours of farm/ranch work performed by women as classified by these variables: age and number of their children; the education levels, ages and hours of employment of both spouses; the wives' prior farm/ranch experience and task preference; presence of wives' names on land documents; and size of the farm/ranch operation.There was no statistically significant difference between the means of the wives' and husbands' perceptions of hours of the wives' farm/

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