I'm Jonathan K. Parton, welcome to K-Part.

On September 18th at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City, Washington Post Live hosted

a panel of conversations in its ongoing series, This Is Climate, Women Leading the Charge.

Women aren't leading the charge, but they are disproportionately affected by the impacts

of climate change.

I kicked things off with USAID Administrator Samantha Power, who used a specific example

to show how climate change has a broader impact on women than meets the eye.

The norm that it is women who go collect the water in rural communities, so as water

dries up near the community, women have to walk further and further, and that's of course

been a terrible means by which or route, by which women have been continually subjected

to gender-based violence in root.

So the further you go, the less protection you have, the more that those other norms that

don't on their face seem to have that much to do with climate change per se, a norm

that indicates it's okay to assault or attack a woman, that norm then intersects, and

thus means a disparate impact again on women in that sector as well.

Let's start big picture, how and in what ways are women disproportionately impacted

by climate change?

Well, first let me thank those of you who are putting on this event, and just say this

is my 10th, it's my 11th, 10th, and this is the first time I've been in an event like

this, which is just taking head on a major source of many problems and a major necessity

in terms of solutions.

So I'd say first, women are just as all marginalized persons, all vulnerable populations tend

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