WUNRN
INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN
June: How Do
Women Save the Earth?
Why Women Care About the Environment?
An Introduction to
this Month’s Focus "How Do Women Save the Earth?"
This month's
podcast: "Sibongile Musuku van Damme: Who Knows the Earth Best?"
Curator Masum Momaya speaks with a South African environmental activist on how
gender, culture and race relate to her country's environmental challenges.
Srdjan
Stamenkovic
-- Women's health
is uniquely affected by environmental toxins. Explore how a work of art is
educating
-- Women suffer
most in natural
disasters. Find out why; as well as how women in
-- Women provide
food for their families and communities. Discover one group of Brazilian women
who help protect their families' food supply by growing
their hair.
-- Women are
responsible for fetching water; some walk long distances each day to bring home
this precious resource. At least the water is free - until recently. Who
owns water? is a question being heard more and more today.
-- Women gather
wood to fuel the family's fires. But after a century of deforestation,
-- Women are
farmers, who carefully breed their crops season after season. One seed can
equal thousands of years of women's work. But big business now wants to patent
seeds, and in
-- Women are often
left out of environmental decision-making, development and planning. One South
African environmentalist promotes women's
wisdom to conserve her country's land, and its indigenous
cultures. Listen to her interview in this month's podcast.
-- Women outnumber
men in Green Parties around the world. Find out what it is about going
Green that so appeals to women, from one MP in
-- Women are some
of the most provocative and effective environmental activists. Meet four remarkable women who fight for the earth
around the world.
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