Women and environment

Environmental books have mostly focused on men’s roles, and generally women’s involvement with nature has been ignored. So, the result is that women’s role in environmental struggles and debates about nature has been hidden from history. However, we can see women of every social class, nation, or color raise their concerns about the environment more openly. Women want to prove to the world that they can be a powerful force for positive changes in the environment and the world around them.

Women are called the main responsible actors in environmental contexts. Technological rationalization has produced environmental problems such as heaps of packaging waste, nondegradable plastics, poisoned grounds and water, allergies through use of chemicals in cosmetics, food, detergents. The “ecologically responsible housewife”, thus, is a good economical manager. She economizes energy. She is to be an expert in waste reduction, in cultivating her own vegetables and fruits, of course without using pesticides.

Women in their roles as nurses, purchasers, houseworkers are especially confronted with environmental problems and communal politics. They have to overcome a lot of difficulties: bad connections with public transport services, no buses in evening and night hours.

Women want to be involved in planning processes and be taken seriously as experts with practical experience, not only at home and at their places of work but also in politics, administration, science and in the economy.

Men also consume. And men produce waste too, - frequently toxic waste such as paint, photo chemicals, car waste. Thus, men have to attend environmental education classes as well. They must also consider their environmental responsibility.

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