In many countries around the globe, women tend to be the ones using and managing water in the home day to day. According to a report UNICEF released in 2012, women in 25 countries in sub-Saharan Africa spend a combined total of at least 16 million hours each day collecting drinking water, compared with 6…
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Breaking the Ice Ceiling: Women Working in Antarctica Today
For years, Antarctica was a hostile place for women, and they faced significant political and social obstacles if they wanted to go. Antarctica was — and still remains — a masculine realm in popular imagination: never permanently inhabited, beautiful but hostile. Today, more women are taking roles as base commanders, expedition leaders, heavy equipment operators,…
A Huge Climate Change Movement Led By Teenage Girls Is Sweeping Europe. And It’s Coming To The US Next.
A huge student protest movement led almost exclusively by teenage girls and young women is sweeping Europe, and it’s on the brink of breaking through in the US. The protests are injecting a new urgency into the debate around climate change, and calling attention to a lack of action by governments. They are also a…
Meet the “Brave Ones”: The Women Saving Africa’s Wildlife
Phundundu Wildlife Park – located in Zimbabwe – is a 115 square mile former trophy hunting area that is part of a larger ecosystem home to some 11,000 elephants. It is also the first nature reserve in the world to be managed and protected by an all-women ranger unit. This ranger unit – who call…
How This All-Women Sailing Voyage is Fighting Ocean Plastic
Ten years ago, skipper Emily Penn discovered the horrors of ocean plastic as she hitchhiked around the planet on the record-breaking biofueled boat Earthrace. She felt compelled to make a change, so she did what any normal 22-year-old fresh out of university would do: Organize the largest-ever community-led waste cleanup from a tiny Tongan island. “It’s also…
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