The Environment and Gender Index (EGI), a project of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, monitors women’s empowerment and gender equality in the environmental arena in 72 countries. The scoring system takes 27 variables into consideration. Here’s how nine of the countries stack up.
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Juhie Bhatia is the managing editor of Women’s eNews. She has covered health, science and women’s issues for over 10 years as a reporter and editor. Previously the public health editor of Global Voices Online, she’s also helped launch EverydayHealth.com, one of the leading health websites in the U.S., and worked for the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s Nutrition Action Healthletter. She’s written for Reuters Health, Nature Medicine, Planned Parenthood’s teenwire.com, Bust magazine, HealthDay, Bulletin for the World Health Organization and MSNBC, among others. She’s a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and also has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Guelph, Canada, in nutritional sciences.
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