Blogs & Opinion
Women: The Climate Solution We Need to Talk About
12 May 2020 | Joky François
Women make up nearly half of the agricultural labor force in developing nations—yet in many countries they can’t even own the land on which they toil; they also often lack access to credit, educ...
Securing Pathways to Environmental Justice for Indigenous Women
11 May 2020 | Laura Cahier
Across the Americas, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) or the World Bank (WB), finance public and private projects to support the development of...
Water Fetching Responsibilities Reveal Unequal Gender Dynamics: Elevates Need for Expansion of On-Site WASH Facilities
10 May 2020
Women in low-income households have limited access to financial services and educational opportunities, which in turn restricts their ability to tap into the labor market and cements their role as car...
What the COVID-19 Pandemic Tells Us About Gender Equality
9 May 2020 | Ann Linde and Arancha González Laya
Regardless of where one looks, it is women who bear most of the responsibility for holding societies together, be it at home, in health care, at school, or in caring for the elderly. In many countrie...
Equality in a Post-Pandemic Era: Gender, COVID-19, Agriculture, and Climate Change
8 May 2020
Globally, one in three women works in agriculture, which tends to be informal, low paid, and especially vulnerable to shocks. For example, when droughts and floods limit access to safe water, more tim...
The COVID-19 Response: What Has Women, Peace and Security Got to Do With it?
7 May 2020 | Naomi Clugston, Michelle Spearing
The United Kingdom is one of the 25 countries deemed least vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the face of rising death tolls, a stretched National Health Service, restrictions on movement and a...
Plans to Prevent Future Pandemics Must Consider Gender Issues, Too (Commentary)
6 May 2020 | Tyler Nuckols
As COVID-19 continues to wrack our lives, the topic of the illegal wildlife trade and its connection to the coronavirus has garnered recent headlines. Many organizations, such as the Wildlife Conserv...
Why Gender Should Be at the Heart of COVID Recovery
6 May 2020 | Angela Kalisch
The tourism industry has been catapulted into a global emergency by COVID-19. After decades of stable growth, only temporarily interrupted by incidents of terrorism, pandemics or natural catastrophes,...
Supporting Women Environmental Defenders in the Time of COVID-19
5 May 2020 | Sara Vigil and Bernadette P. Resurrección
Both the feminist and environmental movements are amongst the most prominent challengers of this commodification. However, environmental defenders face discrimination, violence and high risks, especi...
How COVID-19 Puts Women's Housing, Land, and Property Rights at Risk
4 May 2020 | Victoria Stanley and Paul Prettitore
Around the world, land serves as a foundation for security, shelter, income and livelihoods. But rights to land are not equitably distributed to all. This is especially true for women. In fact, women...