Gender and labor in the U.S. food system

统计数据显示，美国食品劳动部门存在显著的不平等，这些不平等是按性别、种族和阶级划分的。然而，我们对这些统计数据背后的含义知之甚少，比如这些不平等模式的再现机制，社会差异是如何经历的，以及阶级、种族和性别的社会类别是如何相互作用产生不平等的。这项研究将解决这些问题，并有助于发现美国食品系统中不平等系统变化的杠杆点。我们的方法包括个人访谈和与食品行业从业人员（如农民、农场工人和餐馆工人）的小组对话。我们的假设是：(1)不平等制度是强大的，但在粮食工作中是无形的；(2)粮食工作中不平等再生产的特定结构是基于有偿劳动和家庭劳动的交叉点；(3)支持这些不平等结构的实践可以被分类，并且可以确定变革的杠杆点。这项研究的广泛影响包括制定学术和大众学习模式，包括课程、讨论小组和研讨会、信息材料和一本关于性别和食物的书。该研究的综合协作方法包括广泛的传播部分，以确保工作人员，政策制定者，教师和学生参与并从研究中受益。

Statistics show significant inequalities in the U.S. food labor sector and that these inequalities are patterned along lines of gender, race, and class. However, we know little about the meaning behind these statistics, such as the mechanisms through which these patterns of inequality are reproduced, how social disparities are experienced, and how the social categories of class, race and gender interact to produce inequity. This research will address these questions and contribute to the discovery of leverage points for change in systems of inequality in the U.S. food system. Our methods include individual interviews and group conversations with men and women employed in the food industry, such as farmers, farm workers, and restaurant workers. Our hypotheses are: (1) inequality regimes are powerful yet invisible in food work, (2) particular structures of the reproduction of inequalities in food work are based on the intersections of paid and domestic labor, and (3) practices that support these structures of inequalities can be categorized and leverage points for change can be identified. The broader impacts of this study include developing both academic and popular learning modalities, including curricula, discussion groups and seminars, informational materials, and a book on gender and food. The integrated, collaborative approach of the research includes an extensive dissemination component that ensures that workers, policy makers, faculty, and students participate in and benefit from the research.