Women and men play key roles with respect to environmental protection and social and economic development in mountain areas. Women are often the primary managers of mountain resources, guardians of biodiversity and the main actors in terms of agriculture, animal husbandry and other small scale economic activities. In mountain communities, women are keepers of traditional knowledge, custodians of local culture and experts in traditional medicine.
However, women mountain dwellers are often invisible and their voices go unheard. They rarely participate in decisions affecting the management and use of local resources; they often lack basic rights, have little access to ownership and land tenure rights, education, health services and training. Since women and girls have less access to household resources, they are at a greater risk of hunger and malnutrition.
As men migrate to lowlands areas or abroad in search of better income, women are left to manage the farm and household and participate in small trade and income-earning activities. Yet lack of access to credit hampers efforts to improve or expand their farm activities and earn cash incomes.Inaccessibility shapes the lives of mountain communities. Further, the challenges men and women face in mountain regions is intensified by altitude, steep terrain and isolation.
![]() MP members call for attention to mountains and the cryosphere at the UN 2023 Water Conferencepeak to peakThe April 2023 issue of Peak to Peak shares the highlights of the Mountain Partnership's activities at the United Nations 2023 Water Conference. Top news stories cover the Mountain Women of the World Network's summit of Mount Aconcagua, a Mountain Partnership side event at the 67th session of the Commission... Download » |
Utah students advocate for mountain women and girls at CSW67news"Empowering rural women in mountains is crucial to eradicating hunger and poverty," said Rosalaura Romeo, Interim Coordinator of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, during the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67). In alignment with this goal, the Permanent Mission of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Utah... Read more » |
![]() International group of mountain women summit Mount AconcaguanewsAn international group of 14 women from the Mountain Women of the World network successfully summited Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest peak in the western hemisphere. In recognition of their achievement, Nora Vicario, Minister of Culture and Tourism of Argentina, honoured the athletes during a ceremony at the... Read more » |
![]() CSW67 event highlights digitalization’s potential to bridge the gender gap in mountainsnews"Technologies such as the internet are allowing mountain women to organize themselves into 'networks of solidarity'," said Sara Manuelli, Advocacy and Outreach Officer at the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, at the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. She was speaking at an information day on bridging the gender... Read more » |
![]() Le donne in un mondo del lavoro in evoluzione: Verso un pianeta 50-50 nel 2030eventMercoledì 8 marzo alle ore 11, in occasione della Giornata Internazionale della Donna, nell'arancera dell'Orto Botanico di Roma, Il Consiglio Nazionale dell'Economia e del lavoro in sinergia con Il Museo Orto Botanico Sapienza promuove l'evento "Le donne in un mondo del lavoro in evoluzione: verso un pianeta 50-50 nel 2030". L'evento... Read more » |
![]() Bridging the gender gap in rural mountainous regions - challenges: digitalization as one opportunityeventMountain regions are often less populated with fragile ecological and economical systems with their communities having less access to education and healthcare than in the cities, in particular women and girls. Climate change and digital divide affect these regions and disproportionally more women and girls, widening existing gender inequalities and... Read more » |
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