The role of women in environmental education

Resumo

In the face of the increasing environmental problems that are destroying our planet, women are especially vulnerable to them. They have always played an essential role in ensuring the protection of fragile ecosystems, surviving natural disasters and organizing natural resources in a sustainable manner. Although women have done all this, besides knowing how to adapt to climate change, their contributions have generally been undervalued. For this reason, in this article a reflection is carried out around the gender-environment-sustainability interrelation. At the same time an environmental education that builds and reformulates the value of the diverse and the convergence between men and women, from similar but differentiated dimensions must be disclosed. All this is inserted in the natural and social environment, the connections between men and women, in social justice and in the forms of relationship with nature and with life. In this context, an approach to gender considerations inserted in the relations between society and nature that affect the quality of life of women and men is needed. Therefore, an emerging task for environmental education is to promote the formation and research of environmental problems by incorporating the category of gender