Female Livestock Farmers Network

This project was born out of the need to reclaim women's place in the livestock sector. The group aims to break with the male-dominated image of extensive livestock farming and overcome the social, institutional, and professional discrimination they face. "Both the newly arrived apprentice shepherds in the Sierra and the seasoned livestock farmers with generations of herding experience speak the same language, and above all, we are clear about what we want to change: we want to move from permanent invisibility to the forefront, we want to have a voice where important decisions are made, we want to break with the completely male-dominated image of extensive livestock farming and shepherding, we want to be respected as women livestock farmers, we want to overcome the familial, social, administrative, and professional discrimination we suffer, we want to change the excessive bureaucracy, we want to share household chores with men and overcome the forced multiple jobs that, as women, we all endure. We want change."