This article looks closely at the relationship between gender and environment in the context of sustainability. It has been seen that without the inclusion of feminist concerns for gender equality, most environment public policy approaches will be incomplete and may even threaten to intensify women’s subordination. This is illustrated in this article through a case study from Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu, India, wherein local organizations that operate successfully for environmental sustainability and women’s financial inclusion do not achieve gender equality due to the chokehold of patriarchy. The article is theoretically situated in Bina Agarwal’s idea that differences in attitudes to conservation between genders can stem primarily from the gendered division of economic resources, and the gendered division of labor. The article concludes that the relationship between women and nature in the Global South is a political issue that is fraught with power relations that operate at different scales and through different modalities.

本文在可持续性的背景下仔细研究了性别与环境之间的关系。可以看出，如果不包括对性别平等的女权主义关注，大多数环境公共政策方法将是不完整的，甚至有可能加剧妇女的从属地位。本文通过印度泰米尔纳德邦尼尔吉里斯区的案例研究对此进行了说明，在该案例中，由于父权制的制约，成功实现环境可持续性和妇女金融包容的地方组织未能实现性别平等。该文章理论上是基于Bina Agarwal的思想，即性别之间对保护的态度差异可能主要源于经济资源的性别分工和劳动的性别分工。