Can women adapt to climate change?
A new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on November 25, 2019, says that women may be unable to change their mode of survival to adapt to climate change and resulting alterations in socioeconomic and cultural conditions. The factors responsible for this difficulty may include migration of male family members and unfavourable working conditions, abetted by governmental failure to support them, or poverty.
Climate change is most threatening in places like Africa and Asia, where it can cause a dramatic erosion of social support and the means of livelihood. This combination can be deadly, exposing women, in particular, to a still higher risk of failure to adapt successfully. This is shaped by gender, social and cultural factors, income, agricultural and natural conditions, in a variety of ways. The result is that women in that area go through adverse experiences and face negative consequences of climate change in the given context.
Social structures
In most developing countries the strength of tradition supports conservative social structures that deny power to women by disallowing them the power to use resources, to choose the type of work they will do, to move from one place to another, and to make decisions on a variety of important matters. This is one critical factor that hampers adaptability.
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