
By Zoë Geyer
THIS week I spoke at the Bass Coast Shire Council breakfast event for International Women’s Day, focusing on the UN theme of ‘Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow: recognising how women around the world are responding to climate change’.
Here I pause.
And take a breath.
It’s challenging to focus on the amazing contribution of women responding to climate change - without also drawing out the disadvantage and imbalance of power that women are still challenged with today. An imbalance that was highlighted by fellow speakers from Gippsland Women’s Health and Women for Change; evidenced in the statistics of women’s lower incomes and security, older women’s homelessness, domestic violence, sexual assault and rape, and disempowerment from leadership positions.
THIS week I spoke at the Bass Coast Shire Council breakfast event for International Women’s Day, focusing on the UN theme of ‘Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow: recognising how women around the world are responding to climate change’.
Here I pause.
And take a breath.
It’s challenging to focus on the amazing contribution of women responding to climate change - without also drawing out the disadvantage and imbalance of power that women are still challenged with today. An imbalance that was highlighted by fellow speakers from Gippsland Women’s Health and Women for Change; evidenced in the statistics of women’s lower incomes and security, older women’s homelessness, domestic violence, sexual assault and rape, and disempowerment from leadership positions.