REAL ANSWERS PLEASE! NO LITTLE KIDS JOKING AROUND TAKING ANSWER SPOTS! Obstacles preventing women working in agriculture from achieving greater equality and empowerment include all of the following EXCEPT

a lack of a formal education
woman do not always have the same access to loans as men
many farming practices are passed through matrilineal lines
in some societies, women represent a spiritual ideal of fertility related to agricultural productivity
an upswing in the tertiary sector in developing nations