Feminism and the Environment Quiz

Gender Disparities in Environmental Organizations and COP28

• The majority of the largest environmental organizations have male leaders, with only 3 having female leaders.
• Most organizations attending COP28 are sending male-led delegations, and the majority of world and regional leaders, national delegation leaders, and large business owners are men.
• Ecofeminism challenges the exploitation of women and nature by practices rooted in patriarchy, highlighting the devaluation and economic exploitation of both women and nature.
• Original eco-feminist statements from the 70s sometimes assume a 'natural' order in gender, but modern ecofeminist thought highlights differences within the category of women and nonbinary and fluid constructions of gender.
• Black feminist thought emerged in the 1970s and 1980s as a critique of the problematic whiteness of the feminist movement, introducing the term "intersectionality" to capture the unique experiences within social systems due to the positional nature of social relations.
• Social reproduction, which depends on unpaid labor historically assigned to women, is devalued and unseen, especially household work and care work, which disproportionately affects women.
• The COVID-19 crisis in 2020 led to mothers leaving the workforce due to out-of-home child care coming to a halt, resulting in economic losses for women and the economy as a whole.
• Environmental change, exploitation, and development heavily impact the parts of the economy where labor is largely unpaid and invisible, such as the Chipko movement, which affected local women's ability to access resources.
• Gibson-Graham suggests that most of the global economy and social life reside "below the water line," out of view and beyond the control of markets.
• The majority of the world and regional leaders, national delegation leaders, and large business owners at COP28 are men, with Canada's delegation being led by a man and containing more men than women.
• Ecofeminism challenges the exploitation of women and nature by practices rooted in patriarchy, highlighting the devaluation and economic exploitation of both women and nature.
• Social reproduction, which depends on unpaid labor historically assigned to women, is devalued and unseen, especially household work and care work, which disproportionately affects women.

Test your knowledge on the intersection of feminism and the environment with this quiz! Explore topics such as ecofeminism, gendered relationships to nature, feminist approaches to economies and knowledge, and more.