Barriers include structural issues in society and in corporate settings. They are demonstrated by prevailing perceptions of gender and leadership. They are presented in forms of prejudices and discrimination. Women's responses to these barrier also complicate the issue.
The difficulty in juggling work and personal life, particularly caring responsibilities for children and aged parents; The lack of support among women, women's lack of self-confidence and lack of sponsorship for women in workplaces.  There is lack of commitment from leaders and executive teams towards gender diversity.

Here are some steps I can take each day to reduce my electricity usage:
Shutdown my computer.(Computers are some of the biggest energy users in office buildings).
Choose energy efficient lighting.
Unplug idle electronics.
Use a power strip to reduce your plug load.
Turn off the lights.
Use a programmable or smart thermostat.

In our region you can look up online to see what is advised by area and what is safe to eat for adults, woman and children. I’m not a huge fan of seafood but what I do eat follows guidelines. However I am working on incorporating additional seafood choices into our dinner menus. 

We use the left over vegetable pieces when we make homemade soup or just broth. We also use the leftover parts of fruit for baking muffins. When we make mashed potatoes we use the whole potato skin and all. 

I’d rather use this money on things I like to do, day trips, travel, by books, donate to charities etc. 

Research suggests that education helps women better understand the dangers of global warming and prepare for disasters. 
In Drawdown, Hawken argues that one of the most effective solutions to climate change is educating women and girls.
Education and environmental education empowers women and girls to be more effective and resilient stewards of food, soil, trees, and water, even as nature's cycles change and reduces greenhouse gas emissions.

Domestic violence against women is "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life." Body image is one issue related to girls and young  women.
While attitudes are largely positive, large sects of the population still believe transgender people have a mental illness, or are committing a sin.  As for trans/nonbinary, the term gender binary describes the system in which a society allocates its members into one of two sets of gender roles, gender identities, and attributes based on the type of genitalia.  All issues people in our community are facing.

I have connections to both farms and farmland.
I was born and raised on a dairy farm.  Generations of my family
were dairy farmers.
As an adult, I married into a family with property of several hundred acres of farm land, bordering state land in the Adirondacks.  No longer an operating sheep farm, it's a NYS designated tree farm with a saw mill.  The woodlands have been carefully logged and maintained with a select forester.
Declining farmland is called abandoned or derelict farmland.  This land often is an environmental liability, in need of remedy.
Abandoned farmland has experienced at least two changeovers.
First, when its natural vegetation was removed to create farmland and then again when agricultural crops no longer were cultivated.  When thinking about declining farmland, it  invokes a feeling of sadness for me.