Amid multifaceted challenges, there is a story of interconnectedness of women and the environment.

It is evident we are doing even worse than we realised on gender equality.

Women are more adversely impacted by natural disasters than men due to gender-based roles and responsibilities.

There will be no manholes in Berkeley, California. City workers will drop into “maintenance holes” instead. Nothing will be manmade in the liberal city but “human-made.” And students at the University of California, Berkeley, will join “collegiate Greek system residences” rather than fraternities and sororities.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) signs a $30-million loan deal with Brac Bank, which will be used to finance the construction and upgrade of garment factories in Bangladesh.

GENDER and Development by Janet Momsen (2009) is an empirical study considering position of women in developing countries.