Climate Change & Women

As the majority of the world’s poor, women are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change as it exacerbates poverty and threatens to set back development efforts by decades. Women’s social roles as food providers for their families, managers of household resources and chief caregivers after natural disasters uniquely position them as both victims of climate change and powerful agents of change. Sectors central to climate change mitigation such as agriculture, food security and water management are predominately female. All climate change policymaking, implementation and government accountability must be gender-responsive and include the input of women most directly affected by these efforts.

Feminism and Climate Change

Submitted by Kyla Bender-Baird on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 7:25pm

By Kyla Bender-Baird

This Saturday I trudged through the snow to attend the 35th Scholar and Feminist Conference put on by the Barnard Center for Research on Women. Quite appropriately, considering the recent weather, we were discussing feminism and climate change. Commenting on the nearly 36 inches of snow dumped on New York City, Janet Jakobsen, director of BCRW, asked in her welcoming remarks, “Is this a once in a century event or a sign of global climate change?”


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Access & Disparities, Climate Change & Women, Awareness & Education, Barriers & Opportunities, Eco-Activism, Green Technology & Energy, Sustainable Development, Inclusion, Women & Water, Globalization, Women's Movements, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Women's Networks, Environment, Sustainability & Energy, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Globalization, Human Rights & Security

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Climate Change

The most urgent issue of our time, climate change has widespread implications, from the exacerbation of poverty, to the breakdown of infrastructure, to the loss of environmental, political, economic and social security.

Corporate Accountability

WEDO challenges corporate activities that violate women’s rights, threaten lives and livelihoods, and destroy the environment.

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WEDO factsheet that outlines the UN reform process and how it affects women’s lives. Provides overview and steps you can take to get involved and make change.

UN Reform: What’s at stake for women? (pdf)

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It’s nearly a decade since WEDO launched a Global 50/50 Campaign to boost women’s representation in political decision-making positions. Today, while the absolute increase is small, women’s representation in parliaments, now averaging worldwide at 18.2 percent, is the highest it has ever been.

GEAR Campaign 

The Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign – founded and co-coordinated by WEDO and the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) since 2006 – has been advocating for a new, strong, unified gender entity under the United Nations system. The new entity, with predictable and substantial funding, as well as operational capacity at the country level, could truly improve the lives of women around the world.

 

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Climate Change Connections: Gender & Population. A comprehensive resource kit from UNFPA and WEDO on gender, population and climate change. Learn how gender equality can reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts and how women are uniquely positioned to help curb the harmful consequences of a changing climate (2009).

2008 Annual Report: Building Alliances, Making Milestones. We invite you to imagine how the actions we take together bring us closer to our goal of a healthy and peaceful planet, social and economic justice and human rights for all.

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MISSING Information About Women's Lives

National researchers, policymakers, and the media have voiced major concerns in recent weeks about a pattern of distorting knowledge-based information and science in the service of political goals under the current administration. Now, the National Council for Research on Women brings you the story from the women's research and policy perspective.

The Report
MISSING: Information About Women's Lives is a 24-page report that documents how crucial data on women and girls is disappearing. Download the report in PDF format (PDF, 408 KB) or order a copy ($10 plus shipping).

Executive Summary
To download the executive summary in PDF format, click here (PDF, 172 KB).

Press Release

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Over the past few years, vital data has been deleted, buried, distorted, or has otherwise gone missing from government websites and publications. The National Council for Research on Women has documented in this report, the deletion and omission of such information and outlined how these actions directly affect women's lives.

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10/19/2012
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