Attractiveness of Rural Areas for Young, Educated Women in Post-Industrial Society

IF 0.3 4区 社会学 Q4 SOCIOLOGY
Dalia Vidickienė
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Abstract Most scholars of rural gender studies do not consider the essential changes in rural economy and life styles, defining rural areas as traditional and conservative. Research is still extremely fragmented into new problems facing the female population in rural areas, those arising from the changes in the lifestyle and the diversified income sources typical of post-industrial rural settlements. This article hence identifies several significant changes in economic and social life in rural areas dealing with the differences between the attractiveness of rural areas as living place for women in the industrial society of the 20th century and the post-industrial society of the 21st century. The empirical research presented here proves the relevance of post-industrial theory in a real-world environment by testing the validity of several stereotypical opinions about the motivation to live in Lithuanian rural areas from the position of young well-educated people. The analysis of the opinions of young well-educated women reveals that their motivation is rather different from the perceptions of what was important and motivating for finding good living places; these perceptions have otherwise been pointed out by many gender studies based on the industrial society framework. These findings are a call for implementation of new rural policy measures following the higher incidence of young females as rural entrepreneurs, family farm managers, professionals, and local community leaders.
后工业社会中农村地区对受过教育的年轻妇女的吸引力
摘要大多数农村性别研究学者没有考虑到农村经济和生活方式的本质变化,将农村地区定义为传统和保守。对农村地区女性人口面临的新问题的研究仍然极为零散,这些问题是由后工业时代农村住区的生活方式和多样化收入来源的变化引起的。因此,本文确定了农村地区经济和社会生活的几个重大变化,以应对20世纪工业社会和21世纪后工业社会中农村地区作为女性生活场所的吸引力之间的差异。本文的实证研究通过从受过良好教育的年轻人的角度测试了关于立陶宛农村地区生活动机的几种刻板看法的有效性,证明了后工业理论在现实世界环境中的相关性。对受过良好教育的年轻妇女意见的分析表明,她们的动机与对寻找良好生活场所的重要和动机的看法大相径庭;许多基于工业社会框架的性别研究也指出了这些看法。这些发现呼吁实施新的农村政策措施,因为年轻女性作为农村企业家、家庭农场经理、专业人员和当地社区领导人的比例更高。
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