What's Gender Got to Do with It? Global Gender & Environment Outlook - Water & Sanitation Story Map


Publisher: GRID-Arendal

Author(s): Joni Seager, Yehuda Shalem, Elaine Baker, Kristina Thygesen, Tina Schoolmeester, and Debhasish Bhakta

Date: 2019

Topics: Assessment, Gender, Renewable Resources

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The Global Gender and Environment Outlook (GGEO), published by UN Environment in 2016, occupies a unique space in the landscape of global assessments: it offers a lens that reveals the gendered nature of human relationships to environment and development. In a world shaped by gender difference in all realms – work, recreation, family, power and privilege – ‘the environment’ is also deeply gendered.