How many female farmworkers are there in the US?
The percentage of female farmworkers in the US has been in decline over the years. According to the 2000 National Agricultural Workers Survey, about 20% of farmworkers surveyed were women, confirmed with very close statistics from the 2000 Current Population Survey. The proportion of women working in farm labor is also higher in the Northeast than any other region.10 Female farmworkers were more likely to be US-born than their male counterparts (34% versus 15%). Female farmworkers were also found to be older on average than their male counterparts.
