摘要：The authors argue that the feminization of agriculture is mostly due to the demand of male labour in the course of intensive industrial development of socialist Yugoslavia. Thus, on the 1373 farm households examined in Socialist Republic of Slovenia, there have been employed 63.7 per cent of farmers and only 27.8 per cent of farm women. Among the motives for the employment off the farm prevail those of social security, among which reliable and regular income was the most frequently mentioned. The lack of good chances in the future for a better income from agriculture were mentioned the least frequently, while motives of objective nature, such as small holding and unfavorable natural condition for farming, appear to be less important. The least important motives for holding a job are values related to the farm and non-farm work, among which defined working hours and physically harder work on farms were mentioned. There have been found no essential differences among men and women related to the importance of individual motives for the imployment off of the farm. However, there is almost always the higher number of farmers than farm women who named explicitly economic motives. As almost three quarters of farmers and farm women employed are ready to give up their job for the sake of farming under more favourable conditions, it is likely that in the future the number of farm women employed off the farm will not encrease. On the contrary, it is to be expenced that Slovenian farm women will remain on the farm, and in the case of economic necessity or some personal motives will search for solutions within the frame of their farm households.
