Gender and Climate Change: A Closer Look at Existing Evidence

Global Gender and Climate Alliance

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Abstract: The impacts of climate change are already being experienced by each and every person around the world. However,these consequences are not being experienced evenly,and certain individuals are disproportionately affected. These individuals tend to face social,economic,cultural,and political inequalities and often live in places,such as coastal regions,that are heavily impacted by disasters related to climate change. In addition,they often lack the resources and capacity necessary to adequately respond to these challenges. One important area of inequality is that of gender,the focus of this review. Gender inequalities have social,economic,political,and cultural implications for individuals responding to climate change. Examining gender is important because women,men,boys and girls,while hardly homogenous groupings,tend to have systematically different experiences in relation to climate change based on the inequalities associated with socially constructed gender roles.