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Since the early settlement of Madeira Archipelago women have always played an important role in the history of family agriculture. In addition to their household tasks, they had to collaborate with the work on the fields among other farming activities. However, when it comes to agriculture, the perception of working the lands is mainly associated as an exclusive men’s task perhaps due to connotations of the hard work carried out on the steep mountain slopes of Madeira Island in a real battleground for the human being against the hostile forces of Nature (Natividade, 1953). This article aims to homage the Madeiran female farmers and pay tribute to their contribution on the Madeira Island’s rural landscape anthropogenic shaping process.