Climate Change and Gender
Give her a share in the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the city gates." Proverbs 31
Female and male, we were created in God's image. Women have made great strides in the last century in gaining full recognition of human dignity and capacity. Even still, women are more likely than men to live in poverty, lack access to medical services, lack access to transportation, and work in the climate-dependant trade of agricultural production. Seventy percent of the world's poor are women. Therefore, women around the world disproportionately bear the burdens of climate change. Women also have the opportunity to be agents of change and action. Click here for a story about one woman who organized a cooperative of farmers to innovate agricultural adaptations to climate changes in Uganda.
Click here to access the site for the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (launched at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali in December 2007)
Click here for the United Nations WomenWatch site on gender equality and climate change.
Click here for content from the United Nations Summit "Gender and Climate Change Research: Gaps and Questions"
Click here for a fact sheet from the World Conservation Union on Gender and Climate Change.
Click here for a fact sheet from Oxfam America that geographically maps the impacts of climate change on women.
Click here for Oxfam America's "Fight Hunger: Invest in Women" fact sheet.
Click here for resources from Bread for the World on climate change, women, and hunger.
Click here to return to the climate mainpage.
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