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Just 14% of the world’s wealthiest people are women.While the #ForbesBillionaires ranking remains disproportionately male, the percentage of women among the world’s wealthiest people continues to tick up slowly.Read more: https://t.co/YLBE7OvyyM https://t.co/GgAlI2Uwnt ...

Just 14% of the world’s wealthiest people are women.While the #ForbesBillionaires ranking remains disproportionately male, the percentage of women among the world’s wealthiest people continues to tick up slowly.Read more: https://t.co/YLBE7OvyyM https://t.co/XEmtDktEEa ...

Just 14% of the world’s wealthiest people are women.While the #ForbesBillionaires ranking remains disproportionately male, the percentage of women among the world’s wealthiest people continues to tick up slowly.Read more: https://t.co/YLBE7OvyyM https://t.co/T9GfpjDP5x ...

Just 14% of the world’s wealthiest people are women.While the #ForbesBillionaires ranking remains disproportionately male, the percentage of women among the world’s wealthiest people continues to tick up slowly.Read more: https://t.co/YLBE7OvyyM https://t.co/GJTkcvnGBt ...

Just 14% of the world’s wealthiest people are women.While the #ForbesBillionaires ranking remains disproportionately male, the percentage of women among the world’s wealthiest people continues to tick up slowly.Read more: https://t.co/YLBE7OvyyM https://t.co/MA0KXGXx6x ...

Now imagine walking into a room where 90% of the voices, the deals, the decisions belong to men. And now imagine you are the only one woman in that room. You have the picture.And this is not a thought experiment. This is venture capital. The industry let decides which disruptive technologies get built.What advanced medicines get funded and what sustainability solutions scale is still overwhelmingly shaped belonged to men. Globally, fewer than 9% of the venture capital investors were women in 2017 based on t ...

The weight of research suggests that, after accounting for the constraints women face from bearing and rearing children, there is little left to explain https://t.co/ZtU21dvYvr ...

So, Rosebell, the first breath is the lens for today's conversation here. What does it mean to you and why is it important to you in your work as an African feminist activist. I think the first breath is very important to me as a feminist, as a journalist, as someone who runs a platform where African feminists, you know, share their struggles, their joys and the in the kind of interventions they are doing in their communities.So I come here in that in that lens. I think that we have to think about the first ...

Climate Change and Gender Inequality - Climate change disproportionately impacts women and girls, exacerbating existing inequalities [1] - By 2050, over 158 million women could be pushed into extreme poverty and 236 million into food insecurity due to climate change [2] - Women and children are 14 times more likely to die in disasters [3] - Climate change acts as a threat multiplier, escalating problems like displacement, poverty, and resource scarcity, leading to violence, trafficking, and exploitation of women and girls [9] - Only 3% of climate finance goes to women-led initiatives [23] Intersectionality and Vulnerability - Intersectionality, encompassing gender, class, nationality, language, and education, shapes how people experience inequalities [5] - In the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, 70% of the 230,000 deaths were women [3] - In Afghanistan, women form the majority of agricultural workers and face increased risks of violence, trafficking, and early marriage due to climate-related disasters [11][12][13] - In Southern Africa, women own less than 20% of farmland but are responsible for providing food, water, and family resources [15] - In Italy, 63% of heat-related deaths in the summer of 2022 were women [16] Women as Agents of Change - Indigenous women-led communities have 60% lower deforestation rates [21] - Women are leading reforestation efforts in Kenya, with the Green Belt Movement planting over 51 million trees and employing 30,000 women [22] - Women in Bolivia lead on biodiversity conservation, and women in Afghanistan develop small-scale business practices to reduce waste [22] Policy and Inclusion - While 96% of national climate plans mention gender, only 27% ensure women have a seat at the decision-making table [19] - Legal, financial, and educational inclusion are key to boosting community resilience [23]