Presenter(s): Kylie Harchut—Political Science
Session: Prerecorded Poster Presentation
Women that live a migrant farm-worker lifestyle are expected to have numerous responsibilities . Moreover, in this culture, women get held to higher expectations and duties than men . The woman on the poster is supposed to symbolize a mother that lives this type of life . On the outside, the woman looks put together, picking grapes . However, deep down, the woman is struggling with having to carry the weight of having a physically strenuous job and keeping her house in order . On the side of the woman, there are cleaning and cooking supplies . The supplies symbolize that even when a woman is out in the fields working, she still is expected to continue to work when she comes home through cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the family . In the United States, eight percent of farmworkers are men under thirty-one . However, twenty percent of women that work in the fields contain the same responsibility as men . But with this job, women also have the responsibility to maintain the well-being of their families .