If Women Can Take Over the Wine Industry, What Can't They Do?
If Women Can Take Over the Wine Industry, What Can't They Do?
Apr 6, 2013 6(Policymic) - There are many traditionally male-dominated industries around — construction jobs, mechanics, electricians, and even finance, though that's changing. One job area that usually isn't the first to spring to mind is the wine industry. But it's certainly dominated by men, a tradition that goes back a very long time.
The history of winemaking extends back thousands of years, with the earliest known wine appearing around 7000 BCE. Wine-making technology improved during the Roman Empire and from there the grape took hold, with vineyards eventually cropping up in the New World, with us ending up at the present day situation, where the United States population consumes 856 gallons of wine in 2012 (that's 2.73 gallons per resident!).
But who's making all this wine, and who makes money from the United States' apparently insatiable appetite for the white and the red (and sure, the rosé sometimes too)? In IntoWine’s annual "Top 100 Influential People in the U.S. Wine Industry" list, there are only two women in the top twenty names.
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