Top Sustainability Facts: Women and Climate Change
Top Sustainability Fact
When looking at climate change we need to do so through a gender lens, and not by squinting into the sun. When we start looking closer, we begin to see the cold, hard facts of a planet that is heating up:
- 83% of single mothers were unable to return to their homes for two years after Hurricane Katrina hit.
- Two-thirds of jobs lost in the wake of Katrina were those lost by women.
- Women and children are 14 times more likely to die or be harmed when disasters strike.
- Out of those displaced by climate change, 80% are women.
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