Traditional farming includes a component of household production
that is frequently ignored.
More often than not, women and children are involved in these activities.
For years and years, in addition to their specifically domestic
tasks, such as cooking, canning, and keeping house, women are in
charge of collecting eggs and making cream, butter, and occasionally
cheese.
Their work involves specific tools and processes, and they sell
any surplus in the local market. The industrialisation of dairy
production, which occurs outside the family farm, means that women
experience a reduction in the control over their commercial activities
and revert mainly to the world of household chores.
Still, they are doubtless among the first to envoy the arrival of
electricity on the farm, beginning in the 1940s in particular, which
greatly relieves the physical effort linked to their work and provides
them access, like their urban counterparts, to modern, domestic
comfort.
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