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Changing Gender Stereotypes: Exploring Women's Roles in Disaster Risk Management – A Systematic Literature Review

Dufau, Sarah Elisabeth LU (2024) UTVK03 20241
Sociology
Abstract
Natural disasters affect women disproportionately. With the current literature bias of focusing on women’s vulnerabilities towards natural disasters, this paper aims to investigate how women contribute to the mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery of natural disasters, viz. the disaster management cycle (DMC). Through a systematic literature review with exploratory aspects, this paper analysed 11 peer-reviewed articles to identify key activities carried out by women and respective facilitating factors. The systematic review highlighted crucial literature gaps in certain geographical regions, in women’s activities in the mitigation and preparedness stages, and facilitating factors for women’s activities in preparedness and... (More)
Natural disasters affect women disproportionately. With the current literature bias of focusing on women’s vulnerabilities towards natural disasters, this paper aims to investigate how women contribute to the mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery of natural disasters, viz. the disaster management cycle (DMC). Through a systematic literature review with exploratory aspects, this paper analysed 11 peer-reviewed articles to identify key activities carried out by women and respective facilitating factors. The systematic review highlighted crucial literature gaps in certain geographical regions, in women’s activities in the mitigation and preparedness stages, and facilitating factors for women’s activities in preparedness and response. The review found that overall, women were active contributors throughout the DMC, where eight categories emerged: caring, economic, household chores, leadership, learning, planning and organising, social work, and physical labour. The facilitating factors for women’s activities were the inclusion of women in disaster risk management (DRM) programmes, training women in and increasing their knowledge on natural disasters, increasing women’s formal and informal spaces, and changing gender norms. This research then concludes that women are key contributors to DRM throughout the stages of the DMC, and that there is a need for implementing facilitating conditions into policies and frameworks. Furthermore, the research stresses the need for more research on women’s roles in the DMC in various fields. The findings can be applied to DRM policies and programmes together with future research in the field, taking an important step towards decreasing the gendered effects of natural disasters. (Less)
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author
Dufau, Sarah Elisabeth LU
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organization
course
UTVK03 20241
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
natural disasters, women’s roles, disaster risk management, disaster management cycle, facilitating factors, systematic literature review
language
English
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9169651
date added to LUP
2024-07-01 12:40:32
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2024-07-01 12:40:32
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  abstract     = {{Natural disasters affect women disproportionately. With the current literature bias of focusing on women’s vulnerabilities towards natural disasters, this paper aims to investigate how women contribute to the mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery of natural disasters, viz. the disaster management cycle (DMC). Through a systematic literature review with exploratory aspects, this paper analysed 11 peer-reviewed articles to identify key activities carried out by women and respective facilitating factors. The systematic review highlighted crucial literature gaps in certain geographical regions, in women’s activities in the mitigation and preparedness stages, and facilitating factors for women’s activities in preparedness and response. The review found that overall, women were active contributors throughout the DMC, where eight categories emerged: caring, economic, household chores, leadership, learning, planning and organising, social work, and physical labour. The facilitating factors for women’s activities were the inclusion of women in disaster risk management (DRM) programmes, training women in and increasing their knowledge on natural disasters, increasing women’s formal and informal spaces, and changing gender norms. This research then concludes that women are key contributors to DRM throughout the stages of the DMC, and that there is a need for implementing facilitating conditions into policies and frameworks. Furthermore, the research stresses the need for more research on women’s roles in the DMC in various fields. The findings can be applied to DRM policies and programmes together with future research in the field, taking an important step towards decreasing the gendered effects of natural disasters.}},
  author       = {{Dufau, Sarah Elisabeth}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Changing Gender Stereotypes: Exploring Women's Roles in Disaster Risk Management – A Systematic Literature Review}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}