Gender inequality is showing up... in climate change | Amber Fletcher | TEDxRegina

Amber helps us clearly see social inequality during the world's climate events. Climate is also a powerful backdrop to see the often under-valued importance of farm women.
Dr. Amber Fletcher is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina. Her research examines how climate change and major policy changes affect women in agriculture. Dr. Fletcher’s research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals and books. She is a member of the United Nations World Water Assessment Programme’s international working group on gender and water indicators, and has served as an official delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Dr. Fletcher holds two medals from the Governor General of Canada for her research and community work on gender equality.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@tinnietiny]

she sounds like an elder sister giving you crucial knowledge and being emotional at the same time .

[@sajedulkhan4335]

Excellent. This helps me a lot to understand relationship between climate change and gender, gender inequality due to climate change.

[@shanpadarath2931]

Thanks for your input on gender and climate change. I used to be so patriarchal in my thought before I started pursing public health. I used to ignore the economic input that unpaid careers, housewives, mother, grandparents, etc contribute to society

[@Individual_Lives_Matter]

Shan Padarath Unpaid? Think about what that actually means.

[@johnbergerhausen676]

Great. Thanks for unravelling the very important correlation. That's how we get closer and closer to equality!

[@aaaab384]

Yes, the next step toward gender equality is eradicating feminism from the West.

[@PridefulNarratives]

Amazing video, I'm a masters student in climate change program. I'm writing my paper on this topic. Thanks for this exceptional talk.

[@johntuttle7684]

Thank you, you just helped me write my college paper on Gender and the Environment

[@aaaab384]

I pity you.

[@norinbintasalsabila4790]

So insightful!!!! It makes me have a better understanding in climate change and gender inequality.

[@Urpichachacha]

Gender approach is a dimension of analysis, it studies the differences between men and women, including relationships, so with this assessment you can cope with inequalities in access of resources, services and goods. The more we understand the situation the better we organise our actions as a community.

[@seizerpabiania1825]

What is the impact of gender and climate change globally, national and local? Specifically in the Philippines?

[@samuraab5529]

This is very inspiring as this help me better in understanding Gender and Climate change.

[@zachvandine9505]

I'm confused by how she starts the talk saying "there are mostly women working as farmers" and concludes by saying " we need more women as farmers"

[@lt4118]

Water is wet and this women is only driven by feelings based on things that are in no way connected. I will show this to my daughter as a lesson on how just because you feel does not make things connected, logical, or correct.

[@sarcasmmuch8905]

Women like to insert themselves into any issue ,Funny isn’t it,I’m special look at me,Ignore the subject matter

[@lockandloadlikehell]

"Most people are unlikely to envision" Source?

[@deandrenelson7738]

trust me bro

[@CanadianOreoable]

Did you read the description? It's literally her life's work to know that kind of thing.

[@MediaSock]

Who would've guessed the answer to climate change was feminism? if only we all just converted to feminism the weather would just fix itself.

[@celinedcruz5484]

excellent!

[@MG-fr3tn]

When it goes belly up you'll see in PC phycology

[@michaelbosisto6259]

Tampons, pads, and panty liners, their packaging, and wrapping generate more than 200,000 metric tons of waste annually. What's more, plastic and non-compostable materials in period products can take 500 to 800 years to decompose

[@colm5009]

Possibly the WORST video on youtube, and I've seen people watching paint dry!!!! Exactly 'jsv' no substance at all

[@robertcalamusso4218]

And Farm Men aren’t affected ? Their crops they are growing for their wives and kids ?

[@lunafringe10]

use them, leave them,

[@chelseapoet3664]

Ridiculous divisive nonsense. Stop dividing groups against each other. We are all in this together.

[@shavindadissanayake9345]

Both women and the environment are oppressed in patriarchal culture.

[@electricsilver]

I don't know if I'm crying with laughter at your comment, or sadness because you actually believe it.

[@lunafringe10]

most of them adored their daddies and more, thats the truth

[@jabad136]

Lo peor es, que en la universidad te obliguen a ver cosas como estas.

[@youtuberider2820]

Marun Goode enspringú job wohuü

[@TheNate82]

You all against this video should probably go get mental help.

[@1desrobertson]

Come on it was a bed video but not as bad as that . . . surely ??

[@1desrobertson]

Oh go on it was an ultra bad vidio but not mental damaging bad . . . surely ?

[@maybeonce8537]

I realllyy hate Ted Talks and this talk even achieves to say a fault logic of: "so if you dont like Ted Talks and dont like this talk means - and - create + so you actually should like this talk". Not only does the proof of concept doesnt even proof the concept, but also changes the perception of the actual problem that create this problem (just imagine finding just one human being actually stating that it wants to destroy the nature, the only thing i hear from them is that they dont want to lose their "fair share" of what society as a whole produces, or easier said for you: the fear of losing their jobs/not having money to live) So normally we would then look at the system on which this societyon the one hand creates the destruction of nature and on the other produces goods for human to live their life - that is ca pi ta li sm...its really not that hard... ‘‘Rationalist’’ ecofeminism attempts to provide enlightened guidance of social development, thereby very closely paralleling mainstream feminism, which insists that women’s reason is equally human reason and therefore entitles women to equal access to all rational democratic institutions and the legitimate exercise of power. Unfortunately, this form of feminism seems to be largely content with acquiring for women the same powers over the domination of nature that have for so long been uniformly controlled by men. Much of recent feminism’s concerns with subjectivity and identity revolves around the status of ‘‘the feminine’’ and its critical potential for restructuring symbolic and political orders, and may help to address the shortcomings of ‘‘spiritual’’ and ‘‘rationalist’’ versions of ecofeminism. Efforts in this area, including those of Irigaray, have attempted to transform the relations of women to society and politics by transforming the categories and concepts of Western philosophy and political thought; however, these approaches to feminism and ecofeminism, while challenging the entire framework of philosophy and political thought, have yet to establish other than a negating practice. This means that radical forms of feminism and ecofeminism are forced to face the same charges concerning the relation of philosophy to itself and political practice. Does the negativity of the critique preclude political action other than that based on mystical or metaphysical notions of peace, reconciliation, or freedom? One interpretation of critical or ‘‘negative’’ thought asserts that participation in politics in the present liberal, parliamentary framework only serves to strengthen the bindings of oppression and domination. Those who oppose the atomistic individualism typical of liberal politics contend that political practice should instead be conceived as an attempt to construct alternative subjectivities and identities. However, efforts at (re)- constructing identities have also had unexpected consequences, as feminism generally has found, when attempts to analyzes women’s experiences begin to include other categories such as race and class. It is now widely acknowledged that ‘‘women’s experience’’ cannot be collapsed into a single descriptive category, but can only be adequately approached through the recognition of the uniqueness of individuals’ experiences in specific situations, while avoiding philosophical or political ‘‘nominalism’’ by including social and historical context in the analysis. Interpretation of these experiences is further complicated by the frequent occupation by women of multiple categories of oppression and domination. Radical ecological insights additionally force these analyses to recognize that under conditions of unfreedom ‘‘subject positions’’ of individuals or groups are established through a symbolic order in which social identities are at least partially constructed from categories of nature, dominated nature. The conceptual operations by which the nonidentical is reduced to the identical, incorporating it into the system of domination, and thus extending instrumental rationality to the point of its culmination in a ‘‘false totality.’’ In efforts echoing those of the critical theorists, feminists and ecofeminists have attempted, in their philosophical examinations and political actions, to challenge imposed identities. As was indicated earlier, Luce Irigaray, using her strategy of mimesis, attempts to re-symbolize ‘‘the feminine’’ and so create new possibilities for women’s subjectivity. Others, such as Judith Butler, have questioned why women should solely occupy the space of the ‘‘other’’ in this analysis, suggesting that other others, including nonhuman others, must also be re-symbolized, creating multiple strategies of mimesis that might disrupt the current system of domination. The problem for ecofeminists, radical ecologists, and feminists generally is to find the links both theoretically and practically that can tie politics to the insights generated. (or just as i said: your proof of concept doesn't proof your concept..)

[@youtuberider2820]

Govarrrr

[@aaaab384]

With that kind of logic you can make a case in favor of literally everything... You're just putting feminism into something unrelated to get more attention. Everyone loves to be on the "goooooood" side, right?

[@MediaSock]

Oh my god! what's wrong with her hair, her ecofeminism is so strong that it's actually electrifying the air around her causing it to rise statically.

[@TheJoker-qb5ue]

I wonder why her hair follicles stood in air 😐

[@loican861]

Her place is in the kitchen, not on a podium

[@cpaul57]

socialist