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Capehart

Samantha Power on climate change’s disproportionate impact on women

Capehart

The Washington Post

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this Washington Post Live conversation from Sept. 18, USAID administrator Samantha Power discusses the ways women are leading the charge in combating our changing climate, why they are disproportionately impacted, and USAID’s efforts to help communities mitigate and adapt to the climate change.

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0:00.0

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

0:03.8

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

0:09.3

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

0:16.2

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

0:20.3

of climate change.

0:22.0

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

0:27.6

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

0:32.4

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

0:36.6

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

0:42.2

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

0:50.8

to gender-based violence in root.

0:53.1

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

0:58.3

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

1:03.6

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

1:12.6

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

1:23.2

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

1:28.3

by climate change?

1:29.6

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

1:35.1

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

1:45.7

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

1:52.2

in terms of solutions.

1:54.3

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

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