Connecting women and women’s issues through research to action

Women & Environment (W&E) is an organization intended to serve and benefit women, and women’s organizations provide service, research, and support to women worldwide. It advocates for women’s issues by conducting policy research and designing models for their practical application to enhance and protect women’s rights, economic empowerment, and improvement of women’s well-being. W&E specifically focuses on the interrelations of women and the environment. The questions asked are how the environment affects women and how women affect environmental protection.

Through designing policies and action plans that stem from research, those in need can benefit from carefully designed, established, and tested grassroots programs and policies that improve the sustainability of women’s daily lives, simultaneously protecting the environment.

Director:
Dr. Barbara Wejnert
bwejnert@gmail.com, bwejnert@buffalo.edu

About Women & Environment

Women & Environment (W&E) is the result of multi-year research on democracy’s diffusion and global development, which provided an introduction to the life and often tragic world women live in and its connection with environmental degradation.

The goal of Women & Environment is, on the one hand, to provide support for building women’s solidarity, mutual help, and unity to improve women’s economic, professional, and political position and social status. On the other hand, it should be a channel of communication with environmental groups, networks, and organizations that promote women’s advancement while focusing on environmental protection. Solidarity, developed contacts, and established networks would plausibly accelerate the urgently needed empowerment of women and the empowerment of environmental protection.

Higher status for women would benefit not only women but also the ongoing development of countries and the dawn of a nonviolent, peaceful world as envisioned by Mahatma Gandhi. “If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with the woman.” Mahatma Gandhi, 1921. Message to the women of India. A sustainable and flourishing environment would protect women and girls from further hardship, especially in terms of food insecurity.

The Women and Environment Collaborates with many national and international NGOs and Women Networks, e.g.

more information at http://womenbridge.com/