The climate crisis has a gender
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/equal-bytes/the-climate-crisis-has-a-gender/
The #UN estimates that 80% of people displaced by #ClimateChange are #women and #girls. That number isn’t random, it’s the brutal result of existing #gender #inequalities colliding with ecological catastrophe. From Bangladesh’s coastal villages to drought-stricken Kenya, it is women who hold communities together while the ground literally disappears beneath them.
When disaster strikes, women don’t just flee – they carry everyone
When a climate disaster hits, the checklist begins: save the children, the elderly, the disabled. Secure water, food, and shelter. These responsibilities almost always fall on women.
In displacement camps or makeshift shelters, women are the ones who carry the young, feed the family last, and sleep light for safety. During the 2004 Indian Ocean #tsunami and the 1991 #Bangladesh #cyclone, far more women than men died, not because they were weaker, but because boys had been taught to swim and climb trees, because women stayed behind to help others, or because they weren’t allowed to evacuate without male permission.
The world calls it disaster management. For women, it’s survival choreography, without a safety net.
