Empowering Women: Why Women Are Crucial to Solving Climate Change

• This video discusses the inequalities women face and how addressing them is critical to addressing climate change and reducing emissions. 
• They focus on gender inequalities in farming, land rights, domestic duties, education, access to family planning, and decision-making at all levels of government and business. 

Positives

• Students may not be aware of the inequalities women face or the huge positive difference it would make to climate change if they were addressed.
• This video provides climate solutions that are also human rights solutions, focused on gender equality.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• It might be helpful to provide some additional information about gender inequality to provide additional context.
• There may be a commercial before the video.
  

Differentiation

• Discussion questions after the video could cover topics such as:
  • What is the average age of marriage for girls in different countries?
  • Why are girls discouraged from or not allowed to go to school after a certain age in some countries or cultures?
  • Why is there a stigma associated with family planning (choosing if, when, and how many children to have)?
  • Why aren't men more involved with domestic duties?
  • Which countries prohibit women from owning land and homes, having a bank account, or starting a business?
• Other resources on this topic include this TED talk and this report by Project Drawdown.
  

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