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Women's Rights and Sustainability

In this activity, learners will use a set of issues and character cards to consider the importance of women’s rights to sustainability in a guided conversation format.

DESCRIPTION

In this guided conversation, teens will use a set of issues and character cards to consider the importance of women’s rights to sustainability. They learn that creating an equitable society with equal rights and access to opportunities for all will have a big impact on whether or not the world can achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The program can be done in person or online.

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  • Sustainable Futures logo in full color
  • Sustainable Futures logo in full color

DESCRIPTION

In this guided conversation, teens will use a set of issues and character cards to consider the importance of women’s rights to sustainability. They learn that creating an equitable society with equal rights and access to opportunities for all will have a big impact on whether or not the world can achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The program can be done in person or online.

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OBJECTIVES

BIG IDEA

  • Sustainability means healthy people, communities, and environments, now and in the future.
  • Sustainability science studies the interaction between people and the planet and finds innovative and responsible solutions to global challenges.
  • We can work together to create a sustainable future. Everyone has a part to play.

LEARNING GOALS

  • As a result of participating in this program, learners will understand that:

    • Equitable societies are essential to accomplishing environmental, social, and economic goals central to sustainability.
    • Women’s access to education, family planning, job opportunities has a net positive effect on sustainability.
    • One way we can measure our global impact by measuring how much CO2 is in our atmosphere.
    • Policies that create an equitable society have an important role in lowering CO2 emissions.

Credits

YEAR CREATED
2020
OWNING INSTITUTION

UC Berkeley Lawrence Hall of Science

FUNDING

The Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability in Science and Technology Museums program is supported through funding from The Rob and Melani Walton Foundation.

PERMISSIONS

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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