From harvesting to leading denominations: women conquer spaces in the grape harvest

Women play a fundamental role in agriculture and the countryside and have always been present in the grape harvest, either in a family-run farm or as the owner of it, taking care of the vineyards and overseeing all processes, including management positions, where more women are arriving each time. Next Wednesday, October 15, the International Day of Rural Women is celebrated worldwide, a date established by the United Nations to highlight their crucial role, which becomes especially visible in important agricultural campaigns such as the grape harvest in Spain. For the first president of the DOCa Rioja, Raquel Pérez Cuevas, this is not the first grape harvest, as she has been linked to the sector all her life with family vineyards and winery, and she acknowledges that "the role of women, in Rioja, has been and is essential throughout the centuries of history." Pérez assured Efeagro that "she will not be the last president, because in this denomination, women have played and ...