Climate change and gender

Kenya harvest by woman farmer. Women smallholder farms are important suppliers of food for communities around the world, especially in the global south. Women frequently face restrictions on access to resources and land and small farms have a harder time adapting to climate change.

Climate change affects men and women differently.[1] Climate change and gender is a research topic which aims to understand how men and women access and use resources that are impacted by climate change and how they experience the resulting impacts.[2] It examines how gender roles and cultural norms influence the ability of men and women to respond to climate change, and how women's and men's roles can be better integrated into climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. It also considers how climate change intersects with other socioeconomic challenges, such as poverty, access to resources, migration, and cultural identity.

  1. ^ CARE. "Adaptation, Gender, and Women's Empowerment." Archived 5 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine Care International Climate Change Brief. (2010). (accessed 18 March 2013).
  2. ^ Rahman, Md Sadequr (2013). "Climate Change, Disaster and Gender Vulnerability: A Study on Two Divisions of Bangladesh". American Journal of Human Ecology. 2 (2): 72–82. doi:10.11634/216796221504315 (inactive 1 November 2024). ISSN 2167-9630. Archived from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2023.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)