Climate Change Affects Women More. What Can the State Do to Intervene?

Nov 19, 2019 | Sara Hayat
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Climate change is affecting us all, but certain demographics more than others. Marginalised communities — and within them, women in particular — feel the discriminatory impacts of climate change more severely. 

Although this heightened vulnerability is due to a range of factors, a defining reason remains the limited capacity to adapt by those who are financially marginalised. 

Women living in rural areas of Pakistan tend to feel the impacts of climate change more aggressively due to their assigned traditional gender roles and responsibilities. Being solely accountable for essential domestic tasks makes women highly dependent on depleting natural resources like water and firewood.