Too many in the environmental movement have understood the importance of women’s empowerment narrowly and simply as improving sexual and reproductive health and rights in order to reduce population growth. This then also restricts the analysis on women’s empowerment to those countries where women do not have these rights. Many argue cogently that ensuring sexual and reproductive health and rights for women is essential in its own right but also as a means of empowering women as agents of environmental change.
Put simply, women make up half of society and therefore must be part of the solution. Credit: Re:
