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Women give greater priority to protection of and improving the capacity of nature, maintaining farming lands, and caring for nature and environment's future. [65] Repeated studies have shown that women have a stake in environment, and this stake is reflected in the degree to which they care about natural resources.
Women received proportionally less research funding and were less likely to be cited by their colleagues. Women members of the Ecological Society of America increased from 23% in 1992 to 37% in 2010. [19] The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization publishes data on women in science worldwide. [20]
She was the first woman to become a full professor in any department at a Canadian university. [157] 1913: Regina Fleszarowa became the first Polish woman to receive a PhD in natural sciences. [158] 1913: Izabela Textorisová, the first Slovakian female botanist, published "Flora Data from the County of Turiec" in the journal Botanikai ...
Aug. 4—CASSVILLE, Mo. — Roaring River State Park will host the next Women in Nature program, a full-day opportunity for women to learn new and improve existing outdoors skills, including ...
After moving from cities to rural areas during the pandemic, many small town transplants are struggling with their mental health and a lack of access to care.
Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature, edited by Greta Gaard; Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature, edited by Karen J. Warren with editorial assistance from Nisvan Erkal; EcoFeminism & Globalization: exploring culture, context and religion, edited by Heather Eaton & Lois Ann Lorentzen
Carl Linnaeus' system of plant classification based on sexual characteristics drew attention to botanical licentiousness, and people feared that women would learn immoral lessons from nature's example. Women were often depicted as both innately emotional and incapable of objective reasoning, or as natural mothers reproducing a natural, moral ...
The world’s oldest person, Tomiko Itooka, died the night of Dec. 29. She died from natural causes and lived to be 116 years and 220 days old.