Gender Disparities in Farm Transmission
The North Dakota Law Review has jut published an article called " Rural Inheritance: Gender Disparities in Farm Transmission ." This is a thoughtful gendered critique of why sons rather than daughters tend to inherit family farms. It concludes that families and rural society groom boys to farm, but do not cultivate this interest in nor pass the know-how on to girls in the same way. Gender stereotyping and its consequences remain the culprit, even in the face of changes to the Uniform Probate Code that made it gender-neutral. The author of "Rural Inheritance" is Hannah Alsgaard, a 2012 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), who is currently clerking for Judge Roberto Lange of the District of South Dakota, in Pierre. Ms. Alsgaard grew up in Yankton, South Dakota , so she knows well the milieu of which she writes. The abstract for the article follows, and you can download the full text here...