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Gender and work are important social determinants of health, yet studies of health inequities related to the gendered and emotional intricacies of work are rare. Occupations high in emotional labour – a known job stressor – are associated with ill-health and typically dominated by women. Little is known about the mechanisms linking health with these emotional components of work. Using physiological and questionnaire data from Canadian police communicators, we adopt an embodied approach to understanding the relationship between gender norm conformity, emotional labour, and physiological dysregulation, or allostatic load. For high conformers, emotional labour leaves gendered traces in the flesh via increased allostatic load, suggesting that in this way, gendered structures in the workplace become embodied, influencing health through conformity to gender and emotion norms. Findings also reveal that dichotomous conceptions of gender may mask the impact of gendered structures, obscuring the consequences of gender for work-related stress.

Energy security remains a concern in Sub-Saharan Africa. The conceptualisation of energy security at the urban household level has shifted from the security of energy supply to the security of energy services, which is focused more on the demand side. Women and young girls are affected the most by insecure energy services. However, energy policy discourses often fail to focus on the security of energy services or to recognise gender roles in the provision of energy services at the household level. It is therefore imperative to develop innovative and gender-sensitive energy services solutions with a new paradigm of participatory solution design, such as living labs. We assessed living labs and the energy security landscape in poor urban environments through a systematic literature review, and proposed a framework for demonstrating how living labs could be used as a lever to promote the security of energy services. The security of energy services in poor urban households could be improved by harnessing the different innovative strengths of the respective genders. Living labs provide an ideal space for co-generating, co-designing, and co-learning to produce tailored energy services solutions. There is a need for a collaborative effort in resourcing researchers to undertake practical investigations of interactive multi-stakeholder platforms with those who are intended to benefit from the policy to increase its impact and to bridge the science-policy divide. © 2022, South African Institute of Industrial Engineering. All rights reserved.

Climate change has elucidated already existing gender inequalities associated with unequal access to resources, decision-making processes, and higher exposure to environmental shocks and stressors. Growing acknowledgment of the gender-differentiated implications of climate change in recent years has placed gender equality as a focal point in international discourses on climate change adaptation. The policy perspective of gender equality is universalized, but how it transcribes in local climate change adaptation projects remains elusive. Using the relocation of Vunidogoloa, Fiji, this article explores the tension and compatibility between the way gender equality is discussed and how it is implemented in climate change adaptation projects. © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

The aim of this study is to investigate what women do in disaster situations and how both men and women perceive and discuss the work of women. These patterns were evidenced in the stories that were told following the largest forest fire in the modern history of Sweden in July 2014. The study is based on 31 retrospective interviews with volunteers involved in combating the forest fire and concentrates on stories about the supportive work of women during this disaster. The results indicate that women were praised when they followed traditional norms but were denigrated when they performed what were viewed as male-coded tasks. The stories reveal norms concerning what a woman is and is not by focusing on women's age and clothing and by directly and indirectly questioning their abilities and authority. The norms are also rendered visible by the positive attention that women receive while describing doing what is expected of them

This paper addresses the question of how to organize care in degrowth societies that call for social and ecological sustainability, as well as gender and environmental justice, without prioritizing one over the other. By building on degrowth scholarship, feminist economics, the commons, and decolonial feminisms, we rebut the strategy of shifting yet more unpaid care work to the monetized economy, thereby reinforcing the separation structure in economics. A feminist degrowth imaginary implies destabilizing prevalent dichotomies and overcoming the (inherent hierarchization in the) boundary between the monetized economy and the invisibilized economy of socio-ecological provisioning. The paper proposes an incremental, emancipatory decommodification and a commonization of care in a sphere beyond the public/private divide, namely the sphere of communitarian and transformative caring commons, as they persist at the margins of capitalism and are (re-)created by social movements around the world.HIGHLIGHTS Degrowth aims at creating human flourishing within planetary boundaries.As feminist degrowth scholarship, this study discusses degrowth visions for care work.It problematizes the shifting of yet more unpaid care work to the monetized economy.Instead, it proposes collective (re)organization in the sphere of the commons.Caring commons are no automatism for a gender-just redistribution of care work.

The changes in climatic conditions and their associated impacts are contributing to a worsening of existing gender inequalities and a heightening of women’s socioeconomic vulnerabilities in South Africa. Using data collected by research methods inspired by the tradition of participatory appraisals, we systematically discuss the impacts of climate change on marginalized women and the ways in which they are actively responding to climate challenges and building their adaptive capacity and resilience in the urban areas of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. We argue that changes in climate have both direct and indirect negative impacts on women’s livelihoods and well-being. Less than one-half (37%) of the women reported implementing locally developed coping mechanisms to minimize the impacts of climate-related events, whereas 63% reported lacking any form of formal safety nets to deploy and reduce the impacts of climate-induced shocks and stresses. The lack of proactive and gender-sensitive local climate change policies and strategies creates socioeconomic and political barriers that limit the meaningful participation of women in issues that affect them and marginalize them in the climate change discourses and decision-making processes, thereby hampering their efforts to adapt and reduce existing vulnerabilities. Thus, we advocate for the creation of an enabling environment to develop and adopt progendered, cost-effective, transformative, and sustainable climate change policies and adaptation strategies that are responsive to the needs of vulnerable groups (women) of people in society. This will serve to build their adaptive capacity and resilience to climate variability and climate change–related risks and hazards. © 2022 American Meteorological Society.

In this article we examine the future of human rights by looking at how ‘authoritarianism’, in its multifaceted forms and manifestations, intersects with existing discourses on climate change, environmental protection, populism and ‘gender deviance’. By adopting an intersectional lens, we interrogate the emergence of the right to a healthy environment and reflect on whether it will help against the double challenge faced by human rights: of climate breakdown and rising authoritarianism. We study the link between authoritarianism and populism, focusing on far-right populism and the creeping authoritarian features that we can associate with far-right groups, both movements and parties. We also consider how certain understandings of nature and the environment are put forward by authoritarian regimes. This leads us to consider so-called ‘ecologism’ and the ways in which far-right movements draw upon green thought on the natural environment to further a gendered agenda based on conceptions of nature as a ‘national treasure’. These conceptions, as we demonstrate, go hand in hand with policies that promote national identity and directly undermine the rights of migrants, ethnic minorities, women and LGBT+ groups. © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

La plupart des études sur le changement climatique ont tendance à minimiser la nature sexuée de la vulnérabilité. Au mieux, le genre est abordé en termes de binarité homme-femme, considérés comme des forces opposées plutôt que dans des relations variables d'interdépendance. Une telle construction peut aboutir à l'adoption de politiques et d'interventions culturellement inadaptées et aveugles au genre. En Égypte, pays très vulnérable au changement climatique, l'analyse sexuée de la vulnérabilité est presque inexistante. Cet article aborde cette importante lacune de la recherche en posant la question et en s'appuyant sur un contexte égyptien rural : « Comment les aspects relationnels sexués des moyens de subsistance des hommes et des femmes au sein du ménage et de la communauté influencent-ils la vulnérabilité au changement climatique ? ». Pour répondre à cette question, je m'appuie sur une analyse sexuée des relations sociales, encadrée par une compréhension des moyens de subsistance durables. Au cours de 16 mois de travail sur le terrain, j'ai utilisé plusieurs méthodes ethnographiques pour collecter des données dans deux villages à faible revenu culturellement et ethniquement divers en Égypte. Mon principal argument est que les expériences du changement climatique sont étroitement liées au genre et aux relations sociales plus larges au sein du ménage et de la communauté. Ces facteurs sont façonnés par des idéologies et des cultures locales genrées qui sont ancrées dans les relations conjugales, la parenté et la relation à l’environnement, comparées entre les deux villages. Dans cet article, je soutiens avec force que la vulnérabilité au changement climatique est fortement genrée et que, par conséquent, l’analyse de genre devrait être au cœur des discours, des politiques et des interventions sur le changement climatique.

In the late 1970s, Carden Wallace was at the beginning of her lifelong exploration of the Great Barrier Reef - and indeed, reefs all over the world. For Wallace, who is now Emeritus Principal Scientist at Queensland Museum, the beginning of her Reef career coincided with the emergence of both feminist and environmental movements that meant her personal and professional lives would be entwined with a changing social, cultural and political milieu. In this article, we couple the story of Wallace's personal life and her arrival in coral science to identify the Reef as a gendered space ripe to explore both feminist and conservation politics. The article is part of a broader Women of the Reef project that supports a history of women's contribution to the care and conservation of the Reef since the 1960s. In amplifying the role of women in the story of the Reef, we find hope in the richness of detail offered by oral history to illuminate the ways discourse on the Reef and its women sits at the intersection of biography, culture, politics and place. In these stories, we recognise women's participation and leadership as critical to past challenges, and to current and future climate change action. By retelling modern Reef history through the experiences and achievements of women, we can develop new understandings of the Reef that disrupt the existing dominance of patriarchal and Western systems of knowledge and power that have led us to the brink of ecological collapse. © The Author(s), 2022.

This article attempts to look into the fictional narrativization of women's significant and distinctive relationship with nature in Disney's Moana. Emphasizing the power and the unity of women and nature in Polynesian indigenous culture, Moana suggests that the destruction of nature results from exploitative and manipulative masculinity. Through ecofeminist perspectives, this essay observes that Moana offers critical views and promotes awareness of gender and environmental issues. These ideas are communicated through the visual and verbal depiction of power relations that defy patriarchal tradition alongside the expressions of protest against devaluation and abuse of nature and women. To put it in the context of the development of themes in Disney's princess line, Moana's presence can be a novel alternative to the typical images of women, namely a new portrayal of a female character whose primary concern is not romance but instead the sustainability of the environment where she lives. This study also confirms that Disney's animated princess films continuously adjust with the dynamics of global feminist discourse. © 2021 Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. All rights reserved.

Large-scale mining, oil, and gas projects can have a profound and negative affect on women’s rights and gender equality. Adverse impacts include the disruption of family and social life; the increased risks to health and safety, especially in terms of domestic and sexual violence; environmental degradation; as well as changing access to and control over land and livelihoods. These adverse impacts fall most heavily on women. This case study focused on the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). It shows that conventional environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) processes may not identify all potential adverse impacts on women, and can fail to analyse the implications of potential impacts on gender norms and gender power relations, leading to a downplaying of the significance of these impacts. The implications for women and girls’ health and safety resulting from the in-migration of large numbers of mostly men seeking project employment and other opportunities and increases in women’s unpaid care work are two potential adverse impacts the EACOP ESIA failed to identify. Strengthening gender analysis within the current suite of impact assessment tools and methodologies, particularly for extractive industries projects, is therefore urgently needed. © 2021 IAIA.

Malgré le lien direct entre le changement climatique et la pratique du travail social, l'implication des travailleurs sociaux dans la résolution des problèmes liés au changement climatique reste décourageante. Cela est attribué au manque d'exposition aux questions de changement climatique pendant la formation des travailleurs sociaux, ce qui conduit à un manque d'outils adéquats pour que les travailleurs sociaux intègrent les questions de changement climatique dans leurs interventions quotidiennes avec les clients. Cet article vise à fournir des lignes directrices pour la pratique du travail social en intégrant la participation des femmes rurales dans le discours sur le changement climatique. Les travailleurs sociaux et les femmes rurales sont absents des interventions sur le changement climatique aux niveaux professionnel, pratique et personnel. Les impacts précaires du changement climatique se manifestent par des inondations, des sécheresses, des pénuries d'eau, l'épuisement des ressources naturelles, des cyclones et des vagues de chaleur, affectent de manière disproportionnée les femmes, en particulier celles des communautés rurales. La vulnérabilité des femmes au changement climatique émane de l'exclusion dans les processus de prise de décision sur le changement climatique, des normes et modèles culturels qui les confinent aux responsabilités ménagères, du manque de capacité d'adaptation, des faibles niveaux d'alphabétisation, de la domination patriarcale et des niveaux élevés de pauvreté. Les travailleurs sociaux sont donc appelés à favoriser le changement social, en donnant aux femmes les moyens de participer aux discussions sur le changement climatique comme les hommes. Un modèle basé sur les expériences menées en Afrique australe est présenté pour fournir des orientations aux travailleurs sociaux sur la meilleure façon d’intégrer les dimensions de genre dans les interventions sur le changement climatique. Cela favoriserait la justice sociale et environnementale, la résilience sociale, la participation égale au débat sur le changement climatique, le renforcement des capacités et la capacité d’adaptation des femmes rurales.

This study analyzes gender differences in travel patterns for the Metropolitan Area of Montevideo, Uruguay. By applying multilevel regression models, it provides estimates of the impact of individual and contextual factors on travel behavior. The paper's findings lend support to the household responsibility hypothesis, which claims that women's travel patterns are affected by the type of household in which they live and the consequent responsibilities or roles they assume. Furthermore, gender differences in travel patterns are reinforced across census tracts. The results indicate that policy makers need to consider gender differences when seeking to enhance urban planning decisions. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd

In low-income and middle-income countries, such as those in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, the COVID-19 pandemic has had substantial implications for women’s wellbeing. Policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the gendered aspect of pandemics; however, addressing the gendered implications of the COVID-19 pandemic comprehensively and effectively requires a planetary health perspective that embraces systems thinking to inequalities. This Viewpoint is based on collective reflections from research done by the authors on COVID-19 responses by international and regional organisations, and national governments, in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa between June, 2020, and June, 2021. A range of international and regional actors have made important policy recommendations to address the gendered implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s health and wellbeing since the start of the pandemic. However, national-level policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have been partial and inconsistent with regards to gender in both sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, largely failing to recognise the multiple drivers of gendered health inequalities. This Viewpoint proposes that addressing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on women in low-income and middle-income countries should adopt a systems thinking approach and be informed by the question of who is affected as opposed to who is infected. In adopting the systems thinking approach, responses will be more able to recognise and address the direct gendered effects of the pandemic and those that emerge indirectly through a combination of long-standing structural inequalities and gendered responses to the pandemic.

L’accès universel à l’eau potable est considéré comme une caractéristique déterminante des villes du Nord global. Cet article décrit les défis quotidiens auxquels sont confrontées les femmes de la classe ouvrière de Flint, dans le Michigan, lorsque la promesse d’une infrastructure d’eau moderne se fissure. En 2014, afin de réduire les coûts, la source d’eau potable de Flint a été transférée du lac Huron à la rivière Flint. Ce changement, et plus particulièrement la manière dont il a été géré, a entraîné une contamination de l’approvisionnement en eau par du plomb et des agents pathogènes. Si l’expérience de Flint est désormais un cas emblématique d’insécurité hydrique dans le Nord global, elle n’est pas unique. À travers une étude de cas élaborée dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche participative communautaire, cet article détaille comment l’insécurité hydrique a transféré la charge de l’approvisionnement en eau potable aux ménages individuels, et plus particulièrement aux femmes. Plutôt que de pouvoir compter sur la main-d’œuvre et l’expertise technique qui ont rendu l’eau potable dans la ville moderne, les habitants de Flint ont été soudainement rendus responsables de la sécurité de leur propre approvisionnement en eau. Nous expliquons comment la crise de l’eau de Flint a fait naître une « nouvelle normalité » ; Nous examinons les façons dont cette situation a donné naissance à un nouveau rapport à l'eau potable, caractérisé par un (re)retour à l'eau en bouteille ou filtrée (de l'eau du robinet) et par un changement dans la répartition des tâches nécessaires à la production d'eau potable. Les témoignages de femmes que nous présentons ici illustrent comment, lorsque l'eau uniforme moderne fait défaut, les gens commencent à voir des eaux hétérogènes.

Dans les pays à faible revenu, de nombreuses femmes transportent de lourdes charges d'eau potable pour leur famille sur des terrains difficiles. Cela peut nuire à leur santé et à leur bien-être. La présente étude est la première à examiner la charge physique du transport de l'eau et le bien-être psychosocial des femmes, ainsi que la manière dont cette relation est modérée par les conditions environnementales et sanitaires. Des enquêteurs locaux formés ont mené des entretiens avec 1 001 femmes dans cinq communautés rurales du Népal. En outre, des mesures objectives ont été utilisées pour évaluer le poids porté et la distance par rapport à la source d'eau. La charge physique du transport de l'eau a été calculée à partir du poids, de la distance et de la fréquence des déplacements. Son association avec le bien-être psychosocial a été modélisée à l'aide d'équations d'estimation généralisées. Deux autres modèles incluaient le terrain et le prolapsus utérin comme modérateurs. La charge physique du transport de l'eau est directement liée à une détresse émotionnelle plus élevée et à une réduction du fonctionnement quotidien. Cette corrélation était exacerbée pour les femmes transportant sur un terrain vallonné par rapport à un terrain plat, et pour celles qui souffraient d'un prolapsus utérin. Nos résultats soulignent l'importance d'un accès adéquat à l'eau pour le bien-être psychosocial des femmes, en particulier pour les populations vulnérables telles que les femmes en mauvaise santé (par exemple, prolapsus utérin) ou celles vivant dans des terrains vallonnés. Les résultats soulignent en outre l'interdépendance de l'Objectif de développement durable (ODD) 6 : accès à l'eau, de l'ODD 3 : santé et bien-être et de l'ODD 5 : égalité des sexes.

In the autumn of 2018 Greta Thunberg started her school strike. Soon she and the Fridays For Future-movement rose to world-fame, stirring a backlash laying bare the intrinsic climate change denial of Swedish far-right digital media. These outlets had previously been almost silent on climate change, but in 2019, four of the ten most read articles on the site Samhällsnytt were about Thunberg, all of them discrediting the movement and spreading doubt about climate science. Using the conceptualisation of industrial/breadwinner masculinities as developed by Hultman and Pulé [2018. Ecological Masculinities: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Guidance. Routledge Studies in Gender and Environments. New York: Routledge], this article analyses what provoked this reaction. It explores how the hostility to Thunberg was constructed in far-right media discourse in the years 2018–2019, when she became a threat to an imagined industrial, homogenic and patriarchal community. Using conspiracy theories and historical tropes of irrational femininity, the far right was trying to protect the usually hidden environmental privileges, related to unequal carbon emissions and resource use, that Thunberg and her movement made visible. © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Contemporary large-scale land transactions (LSLTs), also called land grabs, are historically unprecedented in their scale and pace. They have provoked robust scholarly debates, yet studies of their gender-differentiated impacts remain more rare, particularly when it comes to how changes in control over land and resources affect women's labor, and thereby their livelihoods and well-being. Our comparative study of four LSLTs in western Ethiopia finds that the transactions led to substantial land use change, including relocation and decrease in size of smallholder parcels, loss of communally-held grazing lands, and loss of forests. These changes had far-reaching impacts on household labor allocation, the gendered division of labor, and household wellbeing. But their effects on women are both more adverse and more severe, expressed in terms of increased wage labor to make up for lost land and livestock, more time spent gathering firewood and water from increasingly distant locations, and an increased intensity of household responsibilities where male members underwent wage labor migration. These burdens led to negative psychological, corporal, and material effects on women living in and near transacted areas compared to their situation prior to transactions. This article both responds to the deficit in studies on the impacts of LSLTs on gendered livelihoods, labor relations, and wellbeing outcomes, and lays the groundwork for future research. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.