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Received: 2023-07-25  |  Accepted: 2023-10-16  |  Published: 2023-12-30

Title

Gender and regional disparities in income level perspectives in United States agriculture sector


Abstract

Agriculture, as one of the most important sectors of the economy of many countries, has to deal with gender inequality, which is part of it, among other problems. For centuries, women have been excluded from this area, but nowadays, they have the opportunity to participate in agricultural activities to the same extent as men and achieve an adequate income. The success of women in US agriculture in the form of their income can be explained through the six indicators: age, family involvement, farm area, farming period, female operators, and partnership by applying the regression analysis. The coefficient of determination shows that the Heartland Region regression model has the highest statistical significance, explaining 51.03 % of the investigated data variability. The second position is kept very closely by the Upper Midwest Region with a value of 50.06 %; the next ones are the Delta Region with a value of 46.37 %, the Great Lakes Region with 44.44 %, and the Northwest Region with 43.24 %. All the regression models assigned to these regions are suitable for explaining. Surprisingly, there are cases where a mutual ratio of the regression coefficients of the same indicator for the two specific regions is twice as high or lower. It reveals there are deliberate regional disparities.


Keywords

agriculture, gender inequality, United States regions


JEL classifications

J16 , J43 , N52


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/1126


DOI


Pages

54-66


Funding

This research is supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic within the project APVV-21-0188: Development of concepts of strategic investment and development packages for regions of Slovakia with a causal link to the creation of methodology for quantifying their effectiveness and efficiency and the project APVV APVV-21-0099: Effective management of innovation-oriented territorial clusters. The paper is published with the support of the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of Slovakia and Slovak Academy of Sciences within the project 1/0646/23, and within the project 1/001/2022 granted by the Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Košice.

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Authors

Juhásová, Simona
Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia http://www.tuke.sk
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Buleca, Ján
Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia http://www.tuke.sk
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Vancová, Jana
Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia http://www.tuke.sk
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Melasova, Katarina
Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia http://www.tuke.sk
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Kováč, Viliam
Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia http://www.tuke.sk
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

11


Number

2


Issue date

December 2023


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

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