Gender stereotyping: Evidence from gender differentiated household vulnerability to climate change in Eastern Uganda
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Date
2018
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Cogent Environmental Science
Abstract
A narrative linking women and vulnerability has been overarching in
vulnerability literature. However, this narrative has not been empirically proven
aside from generalizations based on poverty-gender linkages. This study used
primary data collected in 2016 from 735 randomly selected households in Eastern
Uganda to construct a gender vulnerability index based on the livelihood vulnerability
framework to determine the most vulnerable gender differentiated households.
The results showed that single male-headed households were the most
vulnerable to climate change, even worse than single female-headed households.
Mixed gender households showed lowest vulnerability. Presence of a female spouse
reduced the vulnerability of the traditionally “male headed” households. The results
suggest that disparity in access to requisite resources mediates vulnerability among
groups of households. It is concluded that the straight assumption that vulnerability
is associated with female-headed households is misleading and could disenfranchise
some male-headed households that are more vulnerable.
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Vulnerability, Adaptive capacity, Gender, Climate change
Citation
Balikoowa, K., Nabanoga, G., & Tumusiime, D. M. (2018). Gender stereotyping: Evidence from gender differentiated household vulnerability to climate change in Eastern Uganda. Cogent Environmental Science, 4(1), 1512838. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311843.2018.1512838