Climate Change and Gender Justice

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Bangladesh has recently experienced a number of high-profile disasters, including devastating cyclones and annual floods. Poverty is both a cause of vulnerability, and a consequence of hazard impacts. Evidence that the impacts of disasters are worse for women is inconclusive or variable. However, since being female is strongly linked to being poor, unless poverty is reduced, the increase in disasters and extreme climate events linked with climate change is likely to affect women more than men. In addition, there are some specific gender attributes which increase women’s vulnerability in some respects. These gendered vulnerabilities may, however, be reduced by social changes.

To many from outside, Bangladesh is almost synonymous with disasters. In a country smaller than Britain, and with more than twice as many people, around one-third of the land is flooded every summer. The monsoon rains cover the low-lying land, and swell the three major river systems that struggle to find outlets to the sea. In some years, such as in 1998, nearly half of the land area of Bangladesh is under water.

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