The climate crisis has a way of making hard things even harder — and that includes gender disparities. From their professional lives to their personal lives, climate change has left many women vastly under-resourced and at risk, all while taking on the heavy toll of caring for their families and communities through climate mitigation and resilience.

In this episode, we hear how the climate gender gap is affecting our community, talk to WOCAN founder Jeannette Gurung about how women continue to work through vast climate inequities around the world, and we hear from Commons' founder and CEO Sanchali Seth Pal about how health disparities women face as a result of climate disaster.

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Episode Credits

• Listener contributions: Aliya Hirji, Lin Diaz Maceo, Nicole Collins, Sobia Zaidi
• Episode expert: Jeannette Gurung
• Editing and engineer: Evan Goodchild‍
• Hosting and production: Katelan Cunningham

• (00:00) - Introduction
• (01:57) - How gender perceptions affect sustainable behavior
• (04:50) - How our community experiences the climate gender gap
• (10:50) - Interview with WOCAN founder, Jeannette Gurung
• (25:21) - How climate change is disproportionately affecting women's health
• (31:52) - Outro