Disparate coping strategies for gendered effects of drought: A call for re‐examination of gender roles and harmful traditions in Central Tanzania
International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
ISSN: 1759-5908
Article publication date: 28 September 2012
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to facilitate an understanding of influence of gender roles in drought so as to come with relevant recommendation aimed at bettering the lives of men, women and female children.
Design/methodology/approach
Data have been collected via participant observation, interviews and collection of unpublished primary and secondary data generated by case studies conducted by the author. After which, content analysis was employed for its potentiality as a means of systematically identifying, classifying and analyzing information relevant to this study.
Findings
It is argued in this study that the survival of the community, in Central Tanzania, is questionable because effects of drought have reached intolerable levels and strategies adopted aren't that helpful. More specifically, socially assigned gender roles, position women and female children at the most disadvantageous position as the main victims of the disaster. Accordingly, gender roles have to be changed, if the effects of drought have to be mitigated and the community rescued from disappearance.
Originality/value
The research is original as data obtained cannot be easily accessed by short term researchers who have inadequate knowledge of the community and cannot observe season changes. Practitioner, social scientists and natural scientists, engineers and contractors included, can have their confidence in the findings: the findings are ready to be used.
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Citation
Mpuya Madaha, R. (2012), "Disparate coping strategies for gendered effects of drought: A call for re‐examination of gender roles and harmful traditions in Central Tanzania", International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 283-302. https://doi.org/10.1108/17595901211263675
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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