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Women As Head Farmers: Calling For A Village Revolt!

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MANILA: I do  not  subscribe to gender equality; I want gender  bias , and that is why, for the liberation of farm families from poverty, I'm calling for  a revolution for and by women in the countryside:  Let us enshrine the women as head farmers at the expense of the men! The men have failed too often and too much. The farm family will never rise above poverty if the dominance of the men over farming activities continue, if they go on being the businessmen they are not good at. They have no business dictating the farm business; under them, there has been no emancipation from poverty in the last 100 years, and that's too long. It is time that women took over the beasts of burden, animals and machines, and show the world that the female is the  better  sex. Women in the Philippines.  Tomorrow, Wednesday, as I revise this, 13 January 2016, we are going to Mulanay town in the Bondoc Peninsula in the Bicol Region where an all-women group, the Rural Improvement Club in