Women’s Role in Environmental Management in Alice Walker’s The Chicken Chronicle

Purpose: This paper seeks to examine the role of women in environmental management since their traditional activities bring them into daily interaction with nature. Their attitude towards elements of nature portrays them as good managers. Methodology: Qualitative research was used to write this paper since it involves textual analysis. Information of this research paper was gathered from the primary sources (The Chicken Chronicle) and secondary sources. Ecofeminism was deemed a suitable theory on which this research paper could be hitched, in order to show women’s role in environmental management. Findings: it is realized that women do not have any intrinsic connection with the environment based only on their domestic responsibilities (the collection of firewood, fodder and water) but rather on their will to manage natural resources and preserve nature for the safety of all living things. Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: This research will make people to understand that women are good managers of natural resources, they should be given the chance in each community to prove their worth, they should be encouraged by all means to be connected to nature rather than see them as exploiters of nature and the environment would be saved. This study will also deepen discussion in the field of ecofeminism. Readers of this article will help familiarize it to leaders of the world to encourage women’s management of natural resources.