ABSTRACT
This chapter contends that many demands, by the sheer fact of having been appropriated by women, are associated with the domestic domain, whether or not they belong objectively to this domain. It is to study the influence that the gender composition of the leadership has in creating the environment as a new political fact the author compares the political-ideological, and symbolic-cultural groups that are led by women. In order to explain the potential each approach has to influence political culture and to define the environment as a new political fact, the author evaluates the effect gender has on the identity, organizational structure, social relationships, strategies and other ideological and socioeconomic characteristics in the social movements. In addition, international agencies such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the Inter-American Bank of Development, and the European Community, among others, have increasingly concentrated their attention on the subject of women and the environment.
