Women entered agricultural economics in numbers starting the 1980s, and their ranks are increasing over time. We make case that women have increased relevance field of through diverse interests, perspectives, experiences. document how changed profession both academia government. In research, expanded field's treatment non-traditional topics such as food safety nutrition environmental natural re...

A growing number of social scientists fear that marriage may be on the rocks and few doubt that matrimony, as we have known it, has undergone a wrenching period of change in the past several decades. Andrew Cherlin, a leading sociologist of the family, speaks of "the de-institutionalization of marriage," conceding a point to conservative commentators who have argued that marriage and the family...