Women are more likely to die in natural or man-made disasters than men. If women do survive, they suffer humiliation and harassment in evacuation camps due to their gender. In her home country of Bangladesh, many women died during a flood in 2001 because their traditional long dress and burka hindered their movements and [...]
Archive for the ‘gender in climate change’ Category
29 Jul
Women’s role in adapting to climate change and variability
Given that women are engaged in more climate-related change activities than what is recognized and valued in the community, this article highlights their important role in the adaptation and search for safer communities, which leads them to understand better the causes and consequences of changes in climatic conditions.
It is concluded that women have important [...]
28 Jul
Women Farmers Ready to Beat Climate Change
A collective of 5,000 women spread across 75 villages in this arid, interior part of southern India is now offering a chemical-free, non-irrigated, organic agriculture as one method of combating global warming.
Agriculture accounts for 28 percent of Indian greenhouse gas emissions, mainly methane emission from paddy fields and cattle and nitrous oxides from fertilisers. The [...]
28 Jul
Indigenous women: most vulnerable to climate change but key agents of change
One of the key issues raised at the United Nations Forum on Indigenous Peoples (UNPFII), 18-29 May 2009, New York City, concerns the neglected role of indigenous women in climate change negotiations. The two week session brought together almost 2000 representatives of indigenous groups, UN agencies, governments and other experts.
Water, food and health
“Indigenous women are [...]
23 Jul
Men, Women and the Environment: Gender Issues in Climate Change
Gender relations are the socially determined relations that differentiate male and female situations. People are born biologically male and female but have to acquire a gender identity. Gender relations refer to the gender dimension of the social relations structuring the lives of individual men and women, such as the gender division of labor and the [...]
18 Jul
Gender Equality and Climate Change
Why consider how climate change will affect men and women differently? Understanding how the different social expectations, roles, status, and economic power of men and women affect, and are affected differently by, climate change will improve actions taken to reduce vulnerability and combat climate change in the developing world.
Food security
Climate change is predicted to [...]
16 Jul
Climate Change and Gender
Climate change is a very serious threat to sustainable development and will endanger the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. Combating climate change is directly linked with poverty eradication. Therefore, it is very important that we reach a comprehensive new agreement on climate change by the end of 2009.
Influencing climate change will require full [...]
15 Jul
Is There A Connection Between Gender and Climate Change?
Lorena Aguilar, Senior Gender Advisor of IUCN, tells us the answer.
14 Jul
Women, Climate Change and Refugees
Women and their dependents make up 80 percent of refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons. Yet they are less likely to make claim for refugee status compared to men and are often discriminated against by the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees which does not explicitly recognize gender as [...]
13 Jul
Gender in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
The United Nations has assumed obligations in all policy areas and programs of gender mainstreaming.
Gender equality has yet to be attained anywhere in the world, however. Women and men have different societal and social roles and responsibilities. The legal situation of women and men differs greatly in many countries, as does their economic situation [...]
