This is why I live in fear of global warming. Oh wait, no I don’t.
“For instance, often women don’t know how to swim, so in a flood situation that can lead to a higher instance of death or injury,” Angie Daze, a program manager with a Canadian group called Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change, said.
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Women are highly dependent on the environment for their family responsibilities” in developing countries, said one environmental worker based in Bangladesh.
I think that has more to do with the grinding poverty in Bangladesh than their gender, as mentioned here.
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