1. Bina Agarwal was an environmental activist who wrote about environmental gender issues in India in the 1990’s. She wrote about how women and the environment are linked. She looked at how class, race, ethnicity, as well as other factors affected the link between Indian Women and the environment. She believes that all environmental decisions should be based on how the different genders relate to nature (Connell and Pearse 122).
2. Gender Gap Index: This is the index number and rank that indicate how well or poor a country is doing as it relates to gender equality. This is a way to compare many different countries to each other by using the same criteria. Some of the criteria they use to find the countries rank are the differences in education …show more content…
One example is the work of Wangari Maathai. Maathai was a Kenyan woman who won the Nobel Prize for her efforts with land rights relating to women issues in developing nations (lecture week 11 and 15). She noticed that the cattle and children in Kenya were malnourished. The women were also malnourished. This malnourishment was due to the women not having enough wood to cook healthy food over. Thus, the mothers and children were eating less nutritious food than before the wood shortage. They did not have enough wood to cook over because men were cutting down massive number of trees to use for lumber. This made it harder for the women to prepare meals because gathering wood took longer than it used to. It took longer because the women had to travel farther from home to gather wood. The men did not realize the importance of the wood to the women for cooking food over (lecture week 11 and …show more content…
We should watch individual countries for progress with specific issues. For example, Nepal is very affected by sex trafficking and is making progress toward ending this issue. They are creating organizations and support systems to help victims of sex trafficking. They also are getting the perpetrators caught. (Country Research week 13). For the world, we should watch for poverty decrease. We should watch for this because poverty affects many other aspects of life, including someone’s life span and health. Decreasing poverty will cause improvements in health-related issues in countries where there is a lot of poverty. This is because as a country develops more they will have more advanced and sanitary medical equipment. Thus, the health of the country 's population will increase. It will finally increase their lifespan due to having better health care. Finally, we should be watching for improvements of gender issues in countries we normally do not hear about. Many countries that we do not hear about have gender issues present in that country and are making progress toward ending these issues. Nepal’s sexual assault issues mentioned earlier is a great example of a country we normally do not hear about making progress toward ending gender related issues (Country Research week
2. Gender Gap Index: This is the index number and rank that indicate how well or poor a country is doing as it relates to gender equality. This is a way to compare many different countries to each other by using the same criteria. Some of the criteria they use to find the countries rank are the differences in education …show more content…
One example is the work of Wangari Maathai. Maathai was a Kenyan woman who won the Nobel Prize for her efforts with land rights relating to women issues in developing nations (lecture week 11 and 15). She noticed that the cattle and children in Kenya were malnourished. The women were also malnourished. This malnourishment was due to the women not having enough wood to cook healthy food over. Thus, the mothers and children were eating less nutritious food than before the wood shortage. They did not have enough wood to cook over because men were cutting down massive number of trees to use for lumber. This made it harder for the women to prepare meals because gathering wood took longer than it used to. It took longer because the women had to travel farther from home to gather wood. The men did not realize the importance of the wood to the women for cooking food over (lecture week 11 and …show more content…
We should watch individual countries for progress with specific issues. For example, Nepal is very affected by sex trafficking and is making progress toward ending this issue. They are creating organizations and support systems to help victims of sex trafficking. They also are getting the perpetrators caught. (Country Research week 13). For the world, we should watch for poverty decrease. We should watch for this because poverty affects many other aspects of life, including someone’s life span and health. Decreasing poverty will cause improvements in health-related issues in countries where there is a lot of poverty. This is because as a country develops more they will have more advanced and sanitary medical equipment. Thus, the health of the country 's population will increase. It will finally increase their lifespan due to having better health care. Finally, we should be watching for improvements of gender issues in countries we normally do not hear about. Many countries that we do not hear about have gender issues present in that country and are making progress toward ending these issues. Nepal’s sexual assault issues mentioned earlier is a great example of a country we normally do not hear about making progress toward ending gender related issues (Country Research week