The Golden State is expected to overtake Germany as the world’s fourth -largest economy this year, but not all of this wealth is being shared equally. In this series, the Guardian and the Fuller Project look at the lives of women, especially women of color, who help drive the economy of the US’s second-most racially diverse state but don’t get their fair share of the pie.

reduction in unpaid care and domestic work e.g. through engaging men at home and on farms and estates and through improved care infrastructure e.g. childcare services Waitrose Kenya study: Amy Morris, Barney Smyth (John Lewis Partnership); Tom Cadogan, Mary Nyale, Diana Onyango, Joseph Wachira (Farm Africa).

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Climate change is the most consequential threat multiplier for women and girls, with far- reaching impacts on new and existing forms of gender inequities… The cumulative and gendered consequences of climate change and environmental degradation breach all aspects of the rights of women and girls. Despite their central role in cocoa production, women face much more constraints than men, both as female land owners, andfemalelabourproviders. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/980198/Guidance3-Women–Net-Zero-Economy-Briefing1.pdf; https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1031763/Women-Net-Zero-Economy-toolkit-businesses2.pdf; https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/980912/Guidance3-WEE-Climate-Change-Primer.pdf ↩

Sinead Fenton: ‘Farming is nicer because I can do something for the system instead of taking everything from it.’ Photograph: Alex Lake/The Observer We have a long term vested interest in a resilient cocoa supply chain, and understand the potential of joining climate and gender. This section then moves on to illustrate the types of activities required to enable women to become climate smart farmers – drawn largely from suggestions and findings gathered during the three WOW field-based research studies in Kenya, Malawi and Pakistan.

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On cocoa farms owned by male partners, women will not usually have the‘passbook’documentation needed to participate in farming and community related decision making, through the participation in farmers’ organisations, or development programmes. SACCOs are formal Savings and Credit Co-Operative Society that are member-based financial institutions ↩DuPuis, E. Melanie., and Sean Gillon. 2009. Alternative modes of governance: Organic as civic engagement. Agriculture and Human Values 26 (1): 43–56.