{"id":42501,"date":"2025-05-01T19:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=42501"},"modified":"2025-05-01T19:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:02:02","slug":"disproportionate-burden-on-women-in-risk-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/01-05-2025\/disproportionate-burden-on-women-in-risk-society","title":{"rendered":"Disproportionate Burden on Women in Risk Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS1\/ Society<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In a risk society shaped by modern crises, women disproportionately bear the burden due to existing gender inequalities and caregiving roles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is Risk Society?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The term \u2018risk society\u2019 describes a <strong>shift from an industrial society to one increasingly shaped by uncertainty and hazards <\/strong>created by technological and environmental developments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Industrial societies brought prosperity but also created complex, global risks\u2014like climate change and pandemics\u2014that stem from human progress rather than natural causes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The term risk society was <strong>coined by<\/strong> German sociologist <strong>Ulrich Beck<\/strong> in his 1986 book Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Gendered Impacts in the Risk Society<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Environmental and Health Risks:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Water collection duties<\/strong> of women expose them to contaminated sources, increasing vulnerability to water borne diseases.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Use of solid fuels<\/strong> for cooking leads to chronic respiratory diseases due to indoor air pollution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gender norms such as eating last or less nutritious food during scarcity worsen health outcomes. As per <strong>NFHS-5 (2019\u201321), 57%<\/strong> of Indian women suffer from anaemia, compared to 25% of men.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Economic Vulnerability:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Women are more likely to <strong>work in the informal sector<\/strong>, with limited job security or savings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They also have <strong>limited ownership of land and property, <\/strong>reducing post-disaster recovery ability.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lower access to <strong>credit and institutional support<\/strong>, making them more dependent and less resilient during crises.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Unpaid care work <\/strong>places additional physical and emotional strain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Political and Institutional Exclusion:<\/strong> Women\u2019s perspectives are often underrepresented in decision-making on disaster preparedness, climate policies, and health systems. This results in:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Gender-blind policies<\/strong> or insufficiently responsive to women\u2019s needs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Missed opportunities<\/strong> to harness women&#8217;s local knowledge and community networks for risk mitigation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Way Ahead<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Gender Mainstreaming:<\/strong> Risk mitigation strategies, including climate resilience and pandemic responses, must include a gender perspective.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Economic Empowerment: <\/strong>Land rights, access to finance, and social protection schemes must prioritise women to strengthen recovery capacity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Investing in Care Infrastructure:<\/strong> Recognising and supporting unpaid care work through services like cr\u00e8ches, health insurance, and community kitchens can reduce women\u2019s disproportionate burden.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Participation in Governance: <\/strong>From disaster management authorities to local planning bodies, women\u2019s representation must be institutionalised.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/role-in-a-risk-society-how-women-bear-a-disproportionate-burden\/article69501238.ece\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h3>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">In a risk society shaped by modern crises, women disproportionately bear the burden due to existing gender inequalities and caregiving roles.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is Risk Society?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">The term \u2018risk society\u2019 describes a shift from an industrial society to one increasingly shaped by uncertainty and hazards created by technological and environmental developments.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Industrial societies brought prosperity but also created complex, global risks\u2014like climate change and pandemics\u2014that stem from human progress rather than natural causes.<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/01-05-2025\/disproportionate-burden-on-women-in-risk-society\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-sm float-end\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42530,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42501\/revisions\/42530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}