How the energy crisis is reversing gender equality
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 28, 2023
Throughout the centuries, women have borne the disproportionate burden of economic instability. We’re seeing it happen again right now: High energy prices are causing what the United Nations call “the greatest cost of living crisis in a generation”.
Of those parts of the population who are most impacted by poverty globally, women have been front and center. Already impacted by gender pay disparity, and the added work of home life and motherhood, women are especially vulnerable and growing more . . .