Farm women working so hard they could burn out: study

Women are the glue holding together farms and rural communities, according to a new University of Regina study. One of the report's authors warns that many of those women are in danger of burning out though.

Wendee Kubick recommends the establishment of more intregrated health services.

"There [is] a stigma attached to seeking mental health services or counselling services in rural areas," she says.

"If you are out there with your car parked in front, everyone knows where you were. So we thought if there could be a number of services in one building, people would become more aware of the services that were available in the area. Plus, there wouldn't be the stigma that would be attached."

Kubick says women are working more than 13 hours a day at home, on the farm and in off-farm jobs.