Is sustainability to be enhanced by Woman Power?

Whilst researching the net for things to do with sustainabilty with women involved, I came across an intresting artical called "Are women the key to sustainable development?".

"This issue explores the possible link between advances in achieving gender equality and advances in achieving sustainable development goals. The paper concludes, “As indicated by both theory and evidence, the lack of progress on gender equality may be at the heart of the failure to advance on sustainable development. If women were in more productive and decision-making roles, we could be moving faster and more assuredly towards sustainability in the economic, social and environmental sense. Sustainable development is a political concept because it is about good governance, which will be hard to achieve until we get closer to gender parity. Research is needed to test the hypothesis that women are more risk-averse than men and that women leaders would be more apt to follow sustainable development pathways. Given the importance of gender to sustainability, these issues should feature more prominently in sustainable development discussions and be highlighted in a 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development.”"

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Sourced from Sustainable Development Insights, No. 3, April 2010 - Are Women the Key to Sustainable Development? By Candice Stevens
http://www.bu.edu/pardee/publications/sdi-003-women/