Explainer: How Gender Inequality and Climate Change Are Interconnected

• This article examines how climate change intensifies gender inequality, the unique challenges many women face during a natural disaster, and why climate change amplifies the dangers for women, girls, LGBTQ+ people, and other disadvantaged groups.
  
• Students will learn that climate change impacts the agricultural work of women in many countries, that gender inequalities lower the survival rate of women during natural disasters, and that humanitarian organizations generally struggle to accommodate the needs of women, girls, rural communities, and LGBTQ+ people.

Positives

• This article highlights multiple activists who are in the LGBTQ+ community.
• It mentions other threats that women, girls, and children face including human trafficking, child marriage, and conflict-related violence.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students need to understand that climate change can lead to an increase in natural disasters.
• Students should know what intersectional feminism is.
  

Differentiation

• This article could enhance a lesson about how social, political, and geological environments can impact one's personal health.
• For ELLs, it may be useful to define some words before these students dive into the reading.
• This article could supplement a lesson on how climate change impacts the livelihood of agricultural workers.
• After reading the article, the teacher could lead a classroom discussion on how governments around the world can increase gender equity.
  

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