Women and Gender – Green Economics Institute Trust

100 Years of Women’s Rights

The Green Economics Institute has been campaigning for women’s equality rights and pay for many years indeed.

We really make a difference here

Black women led the NASA space programmes

Our work makes a real difference

Our Green Ecomomics and Womens Unequal Pay and Poverty Book

Our book Womens Unequal Pay and Poverty has been used in governments all over the world to make policies including

The United Nations, Gambia, Sweden and the House of Commons in the United Kingdom.

We have won global awards for our work on women.

On this auspicious anniversary we must reflect that we have come a long way. In major countries in Europe women only just got the vote in recent times, and in some countries they dont have it yet. Unfortunately in the United States the anniversary was marked by the golden gag rule coming in which reverses health gains for women and un does 50 years of progress.

We at the green economics institute have even stated in the New Scientist Magazine -(2010) that saving the climate may even mean giving women their fair rights. The effect on the birth rate of womens education is significant. Empowering women is the single most important thing in saving the planet and the human species.

We salute all those who have worked so hard and in many cases risked their lives to enhance womens lives. It is significant that rape is now widely recognised as a weapon of war, and that womens bodies are often used as chattels and posssesions and baby makers against their wishes. Many victims of terrror or war remark on how this axis is the main rationale for the terrible experiences they have had.

Actions for our readers:

Please send examples of inspiring women who make change for the better in the world and we will post them on our media outlets.
Please ensure you always challenge all male panels and groups of experts -its enough now- and even a female chair and 3 male experts- as this is an increasingly common form. I call it the ‘outing campaign’
Please ensure you challenge when funding and grants all go to men and let us know as this is happening more and more. Send us examples and we will expose them where its safe for us to do so.
Please read our lovely book to spread the word and please join our institute and come to our events we are making a network to change the world for the better. Womens Unequal Pay and Poverty Book

Come to our GEI events this year on gender-

Green Economics, Gender and Climate Project 2021

We are working with Visio the Finnish Green Institute and The Green European Foundation and Institutes in Poland, Belgium and Turkey this year on a Climate Feminist Ambassadors Programme throughout the year.

1. Webinar Series -2021

This includes a webinar with our project partners as outlined above, looking at womens role in climate change and economics and its importance on Sunday March the 28th 2021 – please book now for this important event. More events will be posted shortly in addition as part of this project.

Climate Feminist Webinar -No 1 – Green Economics, Gender and climate Discovering Womens founding place and central role in climate science

Book Here on Eventbrite : Green Economics, Gender and climate

Or Book Here on GEIConferences:

2. Our Many previous conferences on women and gender

We have run many events over the last 18 years tackling this issue and have produced 5 academic conference proceedings which are available from us or good bookshops or libraries. Visit our books website to find out more.

Details will be posted here shortly.

3. Feminist climate summer school 2021

We will also be running a climate feminist summer school with our project partners- please come along to that- most likely on line

Feminist Climate Weekend Summer School

Weekend of Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:00 -Sunday 23rd August 2021 on line

Bookings are now open Here on eventbrite: Feminist Climate Summer School

4. Stopping the patronisation, the patriarchy and Ending the Accumulation -time for a matrifocal, women and gender leadership

We are also running a 1 Day Conference on Saturday October 16th 2021 on line

4. Changing the Landscape of Science: Women’s voices from the scientific sphere

• Exploring the historic exclusion of women in the sciences

• Challenging traditional beliefs around science’s objectivity & cultural and social assumptions of women and minorities.

• How has increased female participation within scientific spaces improved research?

• How and when can we expect to see true gender equality be reached in science?

Bookings are now open on eventbrite here: Ending the Patriarchy, Patronisation and Accumulation

5. Honouring those in whose footsteps we tread -as Kamala Harris said on accession to the USA Vice Presidency.

We honour Eunice Foote a suffragette who in 1856 had discovered the science of climate change and then was plagiarised patronised and ignored – as many of us are- time to stop this behaviour- lets change it once and for all. Find out more Eunice Foote article

6. Taking our delegation to COP26 United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow -November 2021 and taking part in the preparation narratives

7. Making a real change to the way we all think about gender and women. We lead in –Undoing 10,000 years of destructive patriarchy and domestication and reinstating us as a matrifocal species.

We must keep working to try and expose this awful situation which has occured for at least the last 10,000 years since the advent of farming and economics surplus. There is evidence that women were leaders before. In the Bonobo community power and rank comes from the females. It doesnt have to be like this. We need urgently to reestablish a better way to ensure that the human species survives and does not wreck the planet for all the other species.

Please join our lively research group to find out more about how we can change this situation.

8. Our Many previous conferences on women, and gender and also climate change, climate action and science

Enjoy the anniversary- take comfort in what we have achieved so far and what we are going to achieve and then go out and campaign. If you’d like to support us, join our Green Economics Institute today. www.GEIMembership.org