Cross-cut Chapter 3 GLOBAL GENDER AND ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK Food Chapter 1
Water
Although limited, available evidence suggests that women in degraded environments are more likely than men to report that they are struggling with stress and depression (Speldewinde et al. 2011).
Chapter 4: Energy Chapter 2
The prevalence and nature of environmental health risks to women and men vary according to local traditions of gendered divisions of labour. In many contexts women might be more at risk from indoor pollutants, or pollutants related to traditional female employment patterns such as the export flower industry, or hazards associated with supplying resources for the household
(water, food, forest products); men might be more at risk in regard to occupations such as working in mines or as open-ocean fishers (Levine et al. 2001). This simplified picture does not take account of women’s and men’s socio-economic status, land tenure/land rights and many other factors. The complex webs of the social determinants of health relative to those that are biologically determined tend to be underexplored. A recent example of these complex webs is provided by the spread of the Zika virus, which has emerged as a major international public health risk (Box 2.7.2).
