The Insidious Ways Women Bear the Brunt of Climate Change

Our fight to protect the planet is incomplete without a gender-based perspective

Hayley MacMillen
GEN
Published in
5 min readNov 20, 2018

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A woman runs as firefighters work to control a flare up due to flying embers from the Woolsey Fire, November 10, 2018 in Calabasas, California. Photo: Robyn Beck/Getty

There’s a fetid haze in the air when I call emergency medicine physician Dr. Cecilia Sorensen, who is fresh off an ER shift at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, Colorado. I’m in California, some 150 miles from…

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Hayley MacMillen
GEN
Writer for

Health and sexuality writer and law student living in Berkeley, California.