Introduction

The website we developed addresses the effects of gender inequality and climate change. It presents the relationship between these two issues by giving examples that depend on academic sources and an image that explains the relationship. At the end of the page, we listed the references.

We created this website to share our project and raise awareness among more people.

To build the website, we used the three simple coding languages for making websites: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We used Github Pages by Github to make our website publicly available.

We hope to contribute to decreasing gender inequality and inform people about gender inequality and climate change.

Our Model

Gender inequality and climate change seem to be unrelated issues, but in fact, they affect lives in connected ways.

What are the consequences of gender inequality?

The 5th goal of the UN Sustainable Development Goals suggests that we achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. At the root of this principle lies the fact that there are many challenges women and other marginalized communities still face in our society today, including but not limited to [1]:

Gender wage gaps
Limited access to education and healthcare
Gender based violence
Underrepresentation in decision-making processes
Child, early, or forced marriages

What are the consequences of climate change?

The 13th goal of the UN Sustainable Development Goals suggests that we take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. Climate change refers to the increasing temperatures of Earth. It has negative consequences including [2]:

Intense droughts
Severe fires
Rising sea levels
Declining biodiversity

The relationship between gender inequality and climate change

While gender inequality brings challenges for women and other marginalized communities, climate change aggravates the impacts of these challenges, leading women and other marginalized communities to be disproportionately affected by climate change.

In societies where gender inequality is widespread, women who lack access to education often turn to agriculture. Climate-change-driven issues such as drought, decreasing water resources, extreme weather events, and coastal flooding can threaten farming areas and affect women whose livelihoods depend on agriculture. As soil yields decline due to climate change, women earn less income despite working longer hours. [3]
Climate change causes increased temperatures on Earth and leads to hotter environments. Being in an uncomfortably hot environment might result in feelings of irritability and aggression. These negative feelings may trigger violence perpetrated by men against marginalized communities, which is an outcome of a complex relation between heat and social norms that cast "aggression" and "dominance" as masculine traits for men. [4]
Climate-change-driven disasters may cause people to lose their jobs and put them on a mission to find new jobs. Due to gender inequality, marginalized groups may struggle with getting employed more.

Proposed solutions

Organizations that attempt to combat climate change should be concerned with and put emphasis on women's needs while working on their future plans.
Women should be encouraged to participate in decision-making processes against climate change, and discrimination in the workplace should be reduced.
The renewable energy sector should be expanded to create more job opportunities for women and other marginalized communities. This not only promotes the employment of women but also helps slow down global warming.
Children should be educated on the impacts of gender inequality and climate change. Thus, a contribution to achieving gender equality is made, and awareness of climate change may increase.

A simple modeling of the relationship

Our model, which describes the relationship between gender inequality and climate change.

References

Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment | Department of Economic and Social Affairs, https://sdgs.un.org/topics/gender-equality-and-womens-empowerment. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.
What Is Climate Change? | United Nations, https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/what-is-climate-change. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.
The Climate Crisis Is Unjust for Rural Women: FAO Gender Expert, https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/the-climate-crisis-is-unjust-for-rural-women--fao-gender-expert/en. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.
Chersich, M. F., et al. “Violence in Hot Weather: Will Climate Change Exacerbate Rates of Violence in South Africa?” South African Medical Journal, vol. 109, no. 7, June 2019, p. 447. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2019.v109i7.14134.

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