Largest all-female expedition braves Antarctica to fight inequality, climate change

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Largest all-female expedition braves Antarctica to fight inequality, climate change

By Umberto Bacchi

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The largest all-female expedition to Antarctica, comprising 76 scientists, is due to set sail from Argentina on Friday in a quest to promote women in science and highlight the impact of climate change on the planet.

The international team will brave sub-zero temperatures to undergo a 20-day bootcamp on the frozen continent aimed at developing their leadership skills and challenging male dominance of senior scientific roles.

Women make up only 28 percent of the world's researchers and are particularly under-represented at senior levels, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) says.

Yet greater female leadership is needed to fight climate change, which disproportionately affects women, according to Fabian Dattner, co-founder of the Antarctica initiative, Homeward Bound.

"Mother Nature needs her daughters," said Dattner, an Australian entrepreneur and leadership coach.

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Well La - De - Da............

[beethovenfan]

Frozen snatches.

[Rebel2016]

Stay there and don’t come back

[BenLurkin]

Lesbian’s dream cruise.

[ModelBreaker]

Why, just yesterday, I sensed a lessening of inequality and global warming got better. Do you suppose . . . ?

[DoughtyOne]

So much blather, so little time.

[FlingWingFlyer]

ROTFL! Yeah. Right.

[Ciaphas Cain]

If this inspires an all-female remake of The Thing, I’m gonna hurl chunks.

[mrsmith]

What a laugh!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Of course there’s a man along, in case something goes wrong.

[Frank_2001]

“Mother Nature needs her daughters”

NON-STOP PAGANISM! Absolutely disgusting!!! WHO is funding this nonsense???

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Pure, unadulterated sexism with no shame

[jcon40]

Not a bunch of topless photos again in cold goosebumpy weather.

Sheesh, will we ever tire of this?

[stylin19a]

Many of sub-Saharan Africa's smallholder farmers - one of the groups hardest hit by more frequent and worsening drought linked to climate change - are women.

In other parts of the developing world, women and girls face the prospect of walking further to gather water as a result of climate change drying up riverbeds and groundwater supplies.

Natural disasters, which are expected to worsen with climate change, are also likely to kill more women and girls than men, a 2007 study from the London School of Economics showed.

I guessing this will be the 3rd year(4th year?) in a row, some climate change fanatics will have to be rescued from the climate in Antartica.

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“Yet greater female leadership is needed to fight climate change, which disproportionately affects women”

Climate change is sexist?

[GraceG]

Great, now like everest, antactica will be littered with frozen corpsicles...

[ari-freedom]

Let them go, let them go
Turn my back and slam the door…

[LukeL]

Better not call men to come in with helicopters and rescue equipment, that would be subjugation.

[GraceG]

____Insert Natural Disaster here_______ women, children and minorities hit hardest....

[kingu]

Wait a minute here... I thought they were going to do scientist things, not corporate team building exercises...

I mean, this is just embarrassing. ‘We're going down to Antarctica to show that women can do science just as well as men can!’ Umm, you mean just as well as a climate scientist, obviously, as they too do no actual science on their expeditions, just simply pose for pictures when they see something that fits their agenda.