Ecofeminism is an ideology and movement that sees climate change, gender equality, and social injustice more broadly as intrinsically related issues, all tied to masculine dominance in society.[1] Ecofeminism is a conglomerate of Ecology and Feminism.  

This concept circles around the aspect of developing a link between exploitation of environment due to oppression of women. It has developed through a series of conceptions of feminism wherein it was seen that the social patriarchy considers women as a means to an end where the end is the environment. Eco-feminism looks at environmental justice and social justice together.

While addressing social justice, it looks at the oppression and domination faced by women in the form of sexism, racism, masculine hegemony, etc. Through this movement of Eco-Feminism, women's status and subordination gets connected to the environmental degradation and change so that the oppression and degradation of nature and the environment are understood on parallel lines with the oppression and degradation of women. A substantial amount of damage happens to the prospects of finding solutions to either climate change or social issues due to the failure to recognise the intersections between climate change and social issues. In the case of gender equality, elevation of women through social initiatives, specifically improved access to healthcare and education, has a direct impact on reducing emissions by reducing a country’s total fertility rate. Improvement in women’s access to proper education will enable them to look out of several different career options and this will further aide in delaying marriage and conception. It will also make them have fewer yet healthy children and will eventually balance the population index.

After second wave of feminism, this concept evolved. Considering the fact that the nature is perceived to be feminine in character, the oppression towards women was also understood to cover environment under its umbrella. Eco-Feminism primarily focuses upon the fact that it is the women who are closely connected with Mother Earth. Be it drawing of water from the well, sowing of seeds, watering the plants, etc. it is the women who are fundamentally concerned with the care and nurture of Planet Earth. It is the patriarchy which ends up causing problems to the ecology by only reaping the benefits out of the work that women do under the dominance and oppression of men.