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Climate messages from women
Wirsing, Anja
Wirsing, Anja
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"Women with children let themselves be photographed with their message just as readily as young Spanish tourists, students, a grandma with her little grandchild crying in its pram, as well as ‘just ordinary’ women whose attention was attracted to the event while they were busy buying their vegetables at the weekly farmers’ market. The success of this photo-shoot is encouraging, even though it leaves behind a bit-ter aftertaste – for in current decision making on environmental and climate policy women play a very marginal role. This is all the more surprising since women have long been recognised as an important group of players in international development. They are considered to have great foresight and the ability to think in the long term – and are frequently to be found in the vanguard of their country’s developments in the fields of environmental and climate protection. Even if conditions of life are different in developing countries, this does not explain why in industrial societies the effort is rarely made to look at the sexes and take ac-count of their different needs, perspectives and interests. In fact, many people are as-tonished that gender equity might be an issue in environment and sustainability policy. Yet things are no different in this area than in, for example, family or employment pol-icy. Equality between the sexes – just as much between the generations or between rich and poor – is a fundamental principle in every area of society. It is neither triviality nor luxury. It is purely and simply a matter of social justice. In Germany, too, the English term ‘gender’ is frequently used in debates on equality between the sexes. It empha-sises that the relationship between the sexes is not attributable to biology but is based on social – and thus alterable – processes."
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2009-04
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