Nuclear weapons are a gender issue
The language and policies of nuclear violence are deeply gendered.
"…feminists who are concerned about nuclear weaponry and nuclear war must give careful attention to the language we choose to use, whom it allows us to communicate with and what it allows us to think as well as say.”
Radiation causes greater harm to women and girls than to men and boys
“…females are more harmed by radiation, particularly when exposed as young girls, than is predicted by use of Reference Man; the difference is a much as 10-fold. Since females have been ignored in regulatory analysis, this has resulted in systematic under-reporting of harm from ionizing radiation exposure in the global population.”