More than 100 women have shared their experiences of sexism in Ireland’s farming sector.
Launched this week, the social media campaign provides a platform for female farmers to speak up anonymously.
Newly founded Women in Agriculture Stakeholders Group, is behind the movement and the lobbying group was set up to represent women in farming.
Chair Hannah Quinn-Mulligan, said the campaign was created after her own experiences of sexism.
“A salesman called into our yard and asked me could he speak to the boss. I said, ‘what?!’ And he said, ‘your husband’ – and I am, as far as I know, not married,” she revealed.
“This is a common occurrence for women who are farming in their own right, who are farming in equal partnership with their husbands or their sons or their brothers.”
Ms Quinn-Mulligan said she also asked for positive experiences from female farmers but despite a deluge of comments about 98 per cent have been negative.
Some of the experiences included women working with their fathers and brothers on farms and knowing their with not inherit the land, women being passed over for inheritance and sales reps refusing to accept a cheque off a female farmer.
All of the anonymous letters will be attached to a CAP submission from Women in Agriculture Stakeholders Group with its concerns about the criteria limiting women from applying for TAMS.
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