to suffer its effects and less likely to have a seat at the policy table. But the gap is not just in these areas. It also exists in who cares more — and does more — about the climate crisis. And over and over, researchers have found that women are simply liable to care more and to take more action than men.revealed that 59 percent of women surveyed said climate change is a significant problem, compared to 49 percent of men.
“Women are generally more concerned about the environment compared to men,” Nan Li, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,It could be partly because women and people of color — in fact, all disadvantaged minorities — are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
The authors say that this gap also may be due to the different abilities of men and women to adapt to change. “Policies aimed at mitigating climate change can represent a challenge to the status quo, which in turn can prompt responses to defend and legitimize those systems ,” they write. “Consistent with this perspective, in one study, men were significantly more likely than women to deny the reality of environmental problems….”to believe climate change is real.
Young men, however, don’t tend to factor in their fear of climate change in making the decision to have children.