Women and climate change

Updated: Tue, 6 Nov 2018

OPINION: COVID-19 recovery - A missed opportunity to fight climate change and gender inequality?

There is a real risk that women will not be able to take advantage of new green jobs as countries overlook gender in pandemic stimulus

Climate woes growing for women, hit by displacement and migration
Extreme weather and rising seas are increasing the burden of work, ill-health and violence faced by women who are forced to leave home or left behind as menfolk seek jobs elsewhere By Megan Rowling | Tue, 7 Jul 2020
India's women seaweed divers swim against the climate tide
Coastal women who have long dived for a harvest are now battling global-warming driven changes to keep their profession alive By Anuradha Nagaraj | Mon, 30 Mar 2020
The climate crisis has a female face
Groups of climate activists are dominated by women because they suffer the most from the climate crisis fuelled by our patriarchal economic system By Hilda Flavia Nakabuye and Leonie Bremer | Sun, 8 Mar 2020
Gambia's farmers show why premature births may boom in a hot world
As climate change brings more heat extremes, researchers are tracking the risks facing Gambia's pregnant farmers and their babies By Nellie Peyton | Thu, 6 Feb 2020
India's women harvest new social status from climate-smart farming
As they learn techniques to help them get a harvest even in the face of climate pressures, rural women are winning new respect and clout By Roli Srivastava | Tue, 25 Feb 2020
Women step forward in push to nurture African climate scientists
A new programme is training African scientists to be leaders in their field, with a focus on meeting the needs of women farmers in adapting to a warming climate By Busani Bafana | Mon, 13 Jan 2020
With a knock on the door, Egypt aims to turn families greener
As it tries to address climate change and better preserve its environment, Egypt is turning to women, who make many household decisions By Menna A. Farouk | Fri, 31 Jan 2020
Strain on poor women as climate change pushes men to leave home
The burden on women is increasing as they are left to take care of their children and land, while men who leave cannot provide consistent support By Naimul Karim | Mon, 25 Nov 2019
Men sweeping? Women inheriting? Rural Kenya shakes up gender roles
As farmers face greater climate change threats, loosening gender restrictions and getting men and women talking can help them stand up to the pressures By Caroline Wambui | Wed, 30 Oct 2019
Fewer children? Niger ponders a controversial climate option
In a nation with the world's highest birth rate and growing risks to food and water security from climate change, reducing births may be one way to adapt By Sebastien Malo | Mon, 7 Oct 2019
'Water women' quench thirst of central India's parched villages
Rural women are taking the lead in restoring water infrastructure to help their families deal with worsening water stress By Annie Banerji | Tue, 27 Aug 2019
India's parched fields yield rich crop of women cops
As worsening water shortages make life as struggle, woman are turning to a new career: the police force By Roli Srivastava | Thu, 4 Jul 2019
Women bring light to remote villages on islands of Zanzibar
Grandmothers and single mothers are among those being trained as community solar engineers, a programme which they say could transform lives in their communities By Nicky Milne | Tue, 21 May 2019
Gravity lightens load for Nepal's hard-working rural women
Women have suffered injuries and miscarriages due to carrying heavy loads, but a pulley system has transformed their work By Aadesh Subedi | Thu, 4 Apr 2019
From Antarctica to Costa Rica, women team up on climate change
Women are leading efforts to achieve the world's climate goals - but more need to be involved, leaders say By Megan Rowling | Fri, 8 Mar 2019
Women 'uniquely placed' to inspire climate action: mayors
Cities, which are home to over half the world's population, must involve all residents in efforts to adapt to climate change, said mayors By Zoe Tabary | Thu, 21 Feb 2019
Indian women weave their way out of climate change woes
A revival of traditional weaving means women can earn a living at home rather than trekking each day to find work, as a warming climate hits rice harvests By Moushumi Basu | Thu, 31 Jan 2019
Climate shocks threaten gains against HIV in Africa
Teenage girls who grow up in areas hit by harsh drought are more likely to drop out of school, have sex earlier and contract HIV, study finds By Inna Lazareva | Thu, 31 Jan 2019
Defying war and catcalls, Syria's women hop on climate-smart bikes
"I wasn't expecting the astonishment of bystanders and the sexual harassment," says Sarah Zein, who is fighting social taboos and climate change together By Laurie Goering | Wed, 12 Dec 2018
Drought drives desperate Afghans to marry off children for money
About 223,000 people have been uprooted from their homes in drought-hit western Afghanistan By Jared Ferrie | Tue, 27 Nov 2018
Girl power! India's 'solar gal pals' light up rural homes
In sunny Rajasthan, women solar promoters fan out to persuade families of the benefits of renewable energy By Annie Banerji | Wed, 21 Nov 2018
Indonesian geothermal project energises women coffee growers
The coffee-growing communities have a matrilineal culture with women playing a key role in society and property passed to the eldest daughter. By Michael Taylor | Wed, 31 Oct 2018
Goats drink first: Women struggle as coastal India grows saltier
Faced with drinking, bathing in and working in saltier water as a result of climate change, women are facing new health threats By Manipadma Jena | Wed, 31 Oct 2018
As wild weather worsens, Filipino migration takes on a female face
Each day, hundreds of rural women pack their bags for jobs abroad as maids and care-givers in order to feed their families By Rina Chandran | Fri, 30 Mar 2018

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