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Gender Identities, Water Insecurity, and Risk: Re‐theorizing the Connections for a Gender‐Inclusive Toolkit for Water Insecurity Research


Publisher: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water

Author(s): "Alexandra Brewis, L. Zachary DuBois, Amber Wutich and Ellis Adjei Adams and Ellis Adjei Adams"

Date: 2023

Topics: Gender, Renewable Resources

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Informed by decades of literature, water interventions increasingly deploy “gender‐sensitive” or even “gender transformative” approaches that seek to redress the disproportionate harms women face from water insecurity. These efforts recognize the role of gendered social norms and unequal power relations but often focus narrowly on the differences and dynamics between cisgender (cis) men and women.