Women and climate

Vulnerability in women due to climate change

In developing countries, women do the majority of the agricultural work leaving them the most vulnerably when a change in climate takes place.  This is because they have little access or chance to an income earning opportunity like men do.  Since women do most of the manual labor, when there is a drought they are stuck with having to find food, water, and everything else for the family. They also say that with that, the slow population growth will help to cut green house gas emissions.

    This was close to one of our topics we discussed in the forum. Living in America we dont really look as who would be effected by a climate change because I know that I do not think about that very much. Here we dont have to worry about that as much because we depend on many other things to bring us what we need. It is almost like we dont expect anything to get in the way of our farming or how we do things.