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Video Summary

Climate Change Is Not Gender Neutral (6:33)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuiaXcRSAgA

• Climate change is not neutral; it is not going to affect us all equally, and many different factors determine how you will be impacted.
• Climate change is not gender neutral, and neither are some of the solutions to climate change.
• Gender inequity is a global problem steeped in long-held cultural attitudes, laws and institutions, and many of these ideas and structures contribute the most to environmental impacts, so it is not surprising that there is a strong relationship between gender and climate change.
• Gender inequality has many ramifications, but agriculture is one of the easiest ways to see how the impacts of climate change are gendered.
• Women make up a small percentage of landholders and often have less access than men to cash and credit to buy necessary materials, as well as reduced access to education, outside funding and co-ops.
• Women are more vulnerable than men to environmental and climatic changes.
• Improving the livelihoods of female farmers and closing the “agriculture gender gap” will provide support for women and could reduce emissions.
• Women make up 43% of the agricultural labour force in developing countries, but women produce less from the same amount of land as men.
• Part of closing the agricultural gender gap will rely on women having access to better education, because educating women is the number one factor that can reduce the impact of disasters.
• Educating women means the level of educational attainment, looking at how many women have finished high school or higher levels of schooling.
• Educating women improves economic outcomes and health outcomes, and helps reduce emissions.
• Environmental and climate impacts are gendered because of societal and cultural structures.
• We need to provide women with better access to education and resources so they get to make decisions themselves about how they make money, how they feed themselves and their families and what their families look like.
• We should be looking at the problem of global climate change in a gendered way.
• Ecofeminism is a framework that uses a feminist lens to examine the relationship between the natural world and the oppression of women.