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Women and the SRM, Past, Present and Future
Author
Barbara Allen-Diaz
Publication Year
2013
Body

Women have been an integral part of the Society of Range Management from its inception. Women first largely acted in support roles, supporting their husbands' professional careers or working side-by-side with their spouse and family running the ranch. Women first attended SRM meetings primarily as spouses, forming a close-knit spouse group that provided forums for social and student interactions during the annual SRM meetings. By the 1980s, increasing numbers of women were attending SRM as the professional in the field; they came alone to these meetings, brought male spouses, or by the 90s were also bringing children. Clearly issues of balancing work and family life expectations were increasingly important, and these

Language
eng
Additional Information
Barbara Allen-Diaz --- University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA