Rural and Environment

  • Women in the Rural Economy: Part 10

    8th March 2019 by

    To mark International Women’s Day, Rural Affairs Minister Mairi Gougeon blogs about her experience of being a women in politics and the rural economy.

    I was fortunate enough to grow up surrounded by strong-minded and politically active women in my family, so discussion (or ever so slightly heated debate!) was common at home. I went through school and university quite confident, not ever considering that my gender was an issue, I suppose that only really hit me when I was elected as a councillor for the first time during my last year of university.

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