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Recognizing the specificity of life, status and importance of the role of women in rural areas, the European Parliament in 2008 adopted a Resolution on women position in the countryside, where it is stated that many women in rural areas are not registered in the labor market and are not designated as unemployed. The question of the status of women in rural areas is one of the most important in the United Nations (UN) Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, because of the special status and role of women in the countryside. According to the Census of population in Montenegro carried out in 2011, female population comprises about 50.6% of the total population in Montenegro. The average age of women was 38.4. Women have less favorable educational structure, which disables and slows down their employment. Women make only a third of employees in the agricultural sector, and almost half of them is employed in service. Considering the importance of agriculture in rural areas, but also the fact that engaging in agriculture is an important base for existence of significant number of women, it is necessary to improve their agricultural employability. Paper presents the analysis of socio-demographic characteristics of women in rural areas of Montenegro. Depopulation and the aging of the village are the main trends in the population development in Montenegro. Young women are mostly unwilling to stay in rural communities or to engage in agriculture on family farms. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of the female population in Montenegro. Data from 60 family farms were obtained through survey, and in drafting of the paper were also used particular statistical methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geographical, ecological, ethnic, economic and cultural diversity of Montenegro caused the prominent diversity of its rural communities. But the real development and structural problems of agricultural production in Montenegro and farms as its main promoter, were always the same everywhere, numerous and difficult. Globally seen, social and economic conditions for the development of family farms in the last two decades have deteriorated even more, and meanwhile many formerly marginal problems, have deepened and become insoluble. Global influences caused and continue to cause different effects in different local and regional structures, therefore the "tempo" of all social changes is faster in some areas and slower in others, while their devastating or rarely fertilizing impact varies in a multitude of different contrasts. This paper presents an overview of the state of family farms in Montenegro, whose majority today are on the verge of agrarian minimum, their own stagnation and/or final disappearance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]