Women suffer disproportionately from climate change. That’s why they can fix it too
During a natural calamity, women eat less, grow comparatively less food, and are more likely to die than men. They remain chronically underrepresented in disaster planning and are less likely than men to be asked about their needs.
The world is investing far too little in helping people cope with, and build longer-term resilience to, climate change. Response planning still treats increasingly frequent extreme weather events as point-in-time incidents that each need a timebound ... [1426 chars]
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