Gendered Perspectives On Climate Change Adaptation

Ashutosh Mishra, Ph.D Scholar, School of Law, Bennett University, Greater Noida

Kapil Bhati, Ph.D Scholar, School of Law, Bennett University, Greater Noida

Introduction

Men and women are influenced by climate change in different ways.1 While some women may be more immune than men to the adverse effects of climate change, women are particularly impacted by these effects because of the global prevalence of discriminatory practices, institutional barriers, and patriarchal institutions. International human rights law forbids discrimination based ongender.2 However, detrimental preconceptions, institutional discrimination, and economic, social, and political restrictions based on gender can have a range of negative effects on global warming, including those on individual mobility, earnings, supplies of food, health, and many other areas. The capacity of young women and girls to adapt to the shifting climate may be significantly hampered by these effects.3 Among many other factors, these barriers include uneven or restricted access to property, money, education, assets, and in formation to take any decision processes.

This mainly really on particularly harsher for women and girls who have difficulties to multiple forms of discrimination, especially those from lower-income families those who reside in rural areas,4 and older women Therefore, gender inequity is perpetuated by climate change.