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PEGGY ROSS is a Rural Sociologist in the Economic Development Division, Economic Research Service, USDA. She is currently Project Leader for Research on Income Distribution Problems of Nonmetropolitan People. In the past she has done research on social well-being; U.S. farm women; and rural education and has had papers published on those subjects. She has also served the U.S. Department of Agriculture as Technical Representative to the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), who conducted the 1981 National Survey of Farm Women.

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Ross, P.J. A commentary on research on American farmwomen. Agric Hum Values 2, 19–30 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01534988

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