PUBLICATIONS

Why Women and the Environment

Despite progress towards sexual equality, gender differences still exist when it comes to the environment, says a new briefing from Women’s Environmental Network.

Women matter, are active at the grassroots and hold many solutions to environmental problems, says Why women and the environment? Yet they have less influence over the major environmental decisions because men still, by and large, hold the reins of power in politics, civil society and business. Social roles, poverty and biology give women different concerns and perspectives which often go unheard. “Connections between women and the environment are most obvious in less industrialised countries where women still grow much of the food, and are typically depicted as ‘hewers of wood, haulers of water’,“ says the briefing. “But gender differences exist in all societies and affect everyone’s experience of the environment and their impact on it.”

Why women and the environment? is produced with WEN’s partner organisation, Women in Europe for a Common Future, as a resource for women and men working across the continent for a better environment. It can be downloaded free from www.wen.org.uk, go to resources.

Books, Brochures and Flyer

Female, male, sustainable. Towards a gender equitable future
genanet's new brochure features highlights of our activities and achievements from 2004 to 2006. It takes the issue 'energy and climate change' to illustrate how gender and environment issues are interwoven. Further activities like genanet's participation in the development of the first progress report of the German Sustainability Strategy or in Renewables2004 show the achievements of integrating gender perspectives. Benchmarks for parliamentary elections on gender and sustainability assessed the programs of the parties concerning gender and sustainability, and publications like the one related to the 20th commemoration of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl aimed to imform about women's reactions then and today. The brochure is completed by a presentation of our partners and our products. You may also order a hardcopy.

Women active against nuclear energy - from rage to visions
Responding to the ignorance on those who fight most vehement against nuclear energy, we started in autumn 2005 to call for contributions for a publication concerning the 20th commemoration of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl: memories, reactions, attitudes. We asked for reactions when women heard about the nuclear cloud that was contaminating huge regions in Europe. How did this highly dangerous accident change their lives? What are their attitudes towards risk technologies and the current discussions about the extension of nuclear energy production? A selection of the reactions is now published in a book: personal memories to uncertainty and rage, reports on your resistance at that time and today, analysis of the current nuclear policy and attitudes of women towards nuclear.
The articles report on the situation in Germany and Europe, but also about the touching experiences of the women in the place where the catastrophe happened: in the Ukraine, in Belarus, in Russia.
The German book and the English brochure 20 years Chernobyl Women active against nuclear energy – from rage to visions was released end of March 2006, in time for the 20th remembrance of the Chernobyl catastrophe.
The book 'Women active against nuclear energy - from rage to visions. 20 years Chernobyl'  is available in German only, and can be ordered by book stores, internet book stores (amazon and libri) and directly from genanet (ISBN 3-8334-4592-0, 19,90 EUR).
Some free sample articles were translated into English.

Gender Mainstreaming in Germany: Towards Gender Justice in Environmental Policy
On the occasion of the UNEP Global Women's Assembly on Environment and the Network of Women Ministers for the Environment Conference, taking place in Nairobi, 11-13 Oct, we edited a publication on how gender mainstreaming is implemented in environmental policy in Germany. The 32 pages-brochure includes a description of the structures of implementation, the mechanisms and instruments developed, supporting structures and 'data - facts - arguments' on various environmental issues from a gender perspective.
Hardcopies of the brochure, its list of bibliographic references and a final summary of the UNEP women assembly by IISD are available as well.

A healthy climate? Gender justice in climate protection
Flyer with facts and data regarding gender and climate change in industrialised countries.
You may order a printed copy.

A powerful connection. Gender and Renewables
Flyer with facts and data regarding gender and renewable energy in industrialised countries.
You may order a printed copy.