From Glass Ceiling to Grass Ceiling: Women Take Back the Farm

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 9, 2013

This interview originally aired live on July 9, 2013. An edited version was re-broadcast as part of a best-of show timed for Labor Day on September 2, 2013.

Journalist Lori Rotenberk talks about the spike in the number of women farmers over the past twenty years, and why so many women are turning their backs on the corporate world and picking up the spade.

 

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