he IPCC [International Panel on Climate Change] found that gender inequalities are further exaggerated by climate-related hazards, and they result in higher workloads for women, occupational hazards indoors and outdoors, psychological and emotional stress, and higher mortality compared to men. According to research sponsored by the Women's Opportunity Fund, investments in women have a ripple effect into the world around them. They're proven more likely than men to put their income back into their families and communities