"A Woman in the Country Counts For So Much.
In the City She is One of Thousands”
— Grain Growers’ Guide, 12 July 1922.
“That is the splendid thing about co-operation, that it transcends all differences of sex, creed, or race, and holds out to all the opportunity to help in making the world a better place to live in.”
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| Pool head office, 1920s. 135 |
“The most significant feature of women’s farm work then [the twenties] was in its essential productive contribution to the farm economy. (…) Women were producers as well as reproducers. (…) [F]arm women in 1922 made a major contribution to the farm’s productivity, both directly by ‘outside’ work and indirectly, by catering to the needs of the other workers on the farm.”
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| Family on farm. 136 |
While taking prime responsibility for inside work, cleaning and maintaining the house, caring for children and farm workers, the farm woman was expected to do some outside work too, particularly that connected with poultry and dairy animals.
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| A family effort. 137 | Separating milk. 138 |
The Pool tried, at least officially, to encourage women to become involved in the organization. The economic decision-making clout of the farm wife was not lost the on Pool leadership.
“Whereas, we regret the small attendance of farm women at this conference, and whereas, all true co-operation must start in the home, we would urge upon all producer co-operative organizations represented here, that at any similar conference held in the future there should be a larger representation of women delegates”
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| Educational material often targeted women. 139 | Eventually, job opportunities for women 140 moved beyond the typing-pool. |
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