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A Gender Perspective on Climate Change

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Within a consolidated system of patriarchy, the roles of woman and their social position and behaviour were created for and by men. Today men still dominate and exclude women, so the parity score of women in the Global Performance Index (GPI) is only 68% compared with that of men (WEF 2017: 7).

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    Text evolved from several conferences given by the author in Spanish in México and in English in Thailand, Australia and Vietnam from 2010 to 2019.

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Oswald Spring, Ú. (2020). A Gender Perspective on Climate Change. In: Earth at Risk in the 21st Century: Rethinking Peace, Environment, Gender, and Human, Water, Health, Food, Energy Security, and Migration . Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38569-9_13

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