Category Gender Impact Studies Center

Women, Climate Change, and Adaptation: Bridging Gender Gaps in Environmental Policy

As women bear a disproportionate burden of climate change consequences, women’s groups working with rural and tribal organizations are lobbying for gender mainstreaming of women’s concerns in discourse on climate change.

Gendered Impacts of Climate Change: Ownership, Inequality, and Adaptation Strategies

Women possess a unique capacity and knowledge to promote, and to provide for adaptation to, and mitigation of climate change, but often have insufficient resources to undertake such initiatives.

Gender, Climate, and Development: An Ecofeminist Perspective on Women’s Vulnerabilities

Economics of Gender and Development 5005 connection between a the exploitation and degradation of the natural world and the subordination and oppression of women. Ecofeminism emerged in the mid-1970s alongside second-wave feminism and the green movement.

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