«Le changement climatique est sexiste ! Les femmes ripostent et agissent», une exposition de CARE France et l'Agence MYOP

CARE France is an organization that has been fighting poverty and inequality worldwide for 80 years.

It focuses on the correlation between climate change and gender.

« Climate change is sexist » because it disproportionately impacts women and girls around the world. They are the ones taken out of school to fetch water farther and farther away during droughts. They are the ones forced into marriage to have one less mouth to feed. They are the ones who sacrifice when food runs short due to crop destruction. They are also the ones who experience heightened domestic violence during heatwaves.

Yet women and girls are also the champions of adaptation efforts within their communities. Agroecology, education, health programs, economic empowerment… women and girls are drivers of solutions.

Shrimp caught in the mangrove are resold at the market by an intermediary, as women are forbidden from trading there. Bangladesh, Ruhita. July 2026. ; Credits: Agnès Dherbeys/MYOP

Coffee shop along a river between Akroum and Wadi Khaled, once a major water source. « I remember when the local spring dried up. It was our primary water supply; everyone was terrified. » Huda al Mohamad, Lebanon, Akkar District, August 2026. ; Credits: Chloé Sharrock/MYOP

Josselyn Vega Rojas is an indigenous Kichwa Panzaleo woman, farmer, and mother of two children. Ecuador, Cotopaxi Province. August 2026. ; Credits: Adrienne Surprenant/MYOP

Memory Kassim takes part in a massive effort to restore soil moisture and fertility by planting trees. Malawi, Katuli region. July 2026. ; Credits: Laurence Geai/MYOP

In this context, Agnès Dherbeys, Chloé Sharrock, Adrienne Surprenant, and Laurence Geai, four female photographers from the MYOP agency committed to this gender and climate nexus, document in Bangladesh, Lebanon, Ecuador, and Malawi the lives of four of these women, climate heroines.

Their context (drought, floods, water scarcity, El Niño, etc.), their family and professional lives, their role as community leaders: these deep, sensitive, and human reports reveal the strength and transformative power of women facing climate change.