As Heat Rises and Wildfires Rage, Gender Inequality Is Turning Deadly

As Heat Rises and Wildfires Rage, Gender Inequality Is Turning Deadly

As salient as extreme heat and wildfires have been this summer, an important dimension has been mostly absent from discussions of it: gender. Climate change impacts are not gender-neutral. Heat affects different populations in different ways. Climate vulnerability depends on intersecting factors like age, income, occupation, disability, race, but also gender, which is often overlooked. Protecting women, especially those with multiple factors of …