00:00A study by the New Atlantic Council found women are at a much greater risk from extreme heat health-wise
00:06and economically than men.
00:08Forbes says extreme heat also limits economic opportunities for women, exacerbating the economic gender gap.
00:16The study estimates women experience heat-related losses by 260 percent, in contrast to 76 percent for men.
00:24After looking at heat-related losses to women's paid labor productivity across India, Nigeria, and the United States,
00:32the author concluded heat disproportionately affects the health of women, physiologically, the clothes they wear, and responsibilities they have culturally.
00:41The pay gap between men and women makes these financial losses have a much more severe impact on women and
00:47their families.
00:48The study added women earn 20 percent less than men on average worldwide,
00:53and the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in April 2023 that women's wages in the U.S. are 84 percent
01:00of men's.
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