Why gender is an important part of the fight against climate change
Gender is the sum total of the societal roles that come assigned to a given sex. This means that there are implicit and explicit roles and way of life that a person is expected to abide by based on their biological makeup. For example, women are expected to be mothers and wives, home keepers but also career women. Climate change affects everyone on the globe but in different ways and with different intensity. Some people are affected more because of other secondary factors. One of these factors is gender. In terms of gender, women are affected significantly more than men and in unique ways. The effects of climate change manifest as heat waves, intense floods, long droughts, rising sea levels, hurricanes and erratic weather patterns among others. All these affect natural resources in such ways as impacting the availability and quality of water as well as the fertility and ability of soils to produce crop harvests. In the global South and elsewhere in the world, people rely on s