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Celebrating Nine Female Environmental Leaders – Share Your Favorites

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Celebrating Nine Female Environmental Leaders – Share Your Favorites

As part of our ongoing celebration of green women during women’s history month, we are spotlighting ten women environmentalists in the United States who work tirelessly to protect the environment. Help us make this list more comprehensive by adding additional women who you feel have made an enormous difference with their conservation work in the comments section. Also do not forget to check out our list of women working in sustainability and women working in the solar and wind industries.

Is The Green Jobs Movement Leaving Women Behind?

By claire-morgenstern on March 9, 2010 2 Comments African-American, agriculture, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Apollo Alliance, Applied Research Center, BEST Academy, biofuels, C. Nicole Mason, construction, electrical engineers, energy, energy retrofitting, forestry, gender equality, green building, Green Career Ladder, green collar workforce, Green Equity Toolkit, Green for All, Green Job Market, green jobs, green jobs training, Green Pathways out of Poverty, Green Retrofit and Workforce Program, green—bioengineering, labor segmentation, Latino women, metal workers, people of color, race equality, Retrofit America’s Cities, SCOPE, Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education, Sustainable South Bronx, transportation, U.N., women, Women of Color Policy Network

Is The Green Jobs Movement Leaving Women Behind?

While women are more eco aware than men, they are are underrepresented in green jobs. This includes jobs created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. However, there are a growing number of programs that are designed to address these inequities.