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Best Practices to Support Women in Permaculture | SEEDS Sustainability Consulting
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In my article “A Pattern Language for Women in Permaculture”, each pattern identified a core solution to a problem that undermines women’s full participation and leadership in permaculture. Since the publication of that article in the Permaculture Activist in August of 2013, I’ve been compiling “best practices” that enable us to move from dialog to committed action.

These “Best Practices” were identified by many people, from many places (including in a working group at the 2014 North American Permaculture Convergence), so I don’t aim to take credit for them, regret that it is impractical to list the names of the many people who helped shape this document, and am grateful for the time and insights so many of you contributed.

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A “Pattern Language” for Women in Permaculture | SEEDS Sustainability Consulting
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Though women receive the majority of all college degrees in the U.S., and are well represented in the work force, they are very under-represented in positions of high-level leadership. Most of the women I’ve encountered in permaculture note analogous patterns: often, women constitute 50% or more of the participants in PDCs, yet occupy disproportionately few of the positions of leadership and prominence in lucrative roles, such as designers, teachers, authors, speakers, or “permaculture superstars.”

Avec même du #féminisme_intersectionnel :

Similarly, Pandora Thomas, a rising permaculture leader in the San Francisco Bay Area says, “There hasn’t been enough work done around permaculture principles translating them for the people care ethic, so now there’s this misconception that permaculture is about farming and gardening, which it isn’t–it’s mostly about relationships. It’s about looking at systemic problems and finding relationship-based whole system solutions?and one of most vital systemic issues, along with the status of women, is cultural and racial inequity.” Thomas believes the phrase “women in permaculture” fails to acknowledge that there are many types of women who are treated in such divergent ways, with black women often finding themselves invisible in conversations about women in permaculture. At the same time, many women from diverse backgrounds are engaged in and taking leadership around permaculture design, she said.

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