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The paper tests hypotheses regarding the relationship between husbands' pluriactivity and women's integration in the agricultural occupation in terms of feminization of agricultural decision-making and institutional feminization; and between farm size and women's integration in the agricultural occupation with a population of active women farmers in the province of Kastoria. The data do not support either of the two hypotheses, thus indicating that women's integration in the agricultural occupation can occur not only among smallholders but as well as among large farmers (and even more among the latter) and that husbands' full-time off-farm employment is not the sole determining factor for women's integration in the agricultural occupation. Furthermore, the combination of large farm size with commercial agriculture seems to be positively related to women's integration in the agricultural occupation. These findings underline the necessity to involve such active women farmers to ongoing development programs aiming to increase farmers' competitiveness.