Climate change and women’s voice and agency beyond the household: Insights from India
Women’s Voice & Agency beyond the household (VABH) has increasingly been recognized as critical to strengthening resilience, increasing women’s access to important resources, improving women’s decision-making power, and facilitating broader social networks (Njuki et al. 2022). Despite rapidly intens...
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| author | Takeshima, Hiroyuki Raghunathan, Kalyani Kosec, Katrina |
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| description | Women’s Voice & Agency beyond the household (VABH) has increasingly been recognized as critical to strengthening resilience, increasing women’s access to important resources, improving women’s decision-making power, and facilitating broader social networks (Njuki et al. 2022). Despite rapidly intensifying climate change in recent years, a knowledge gap persists as to how climate change may affect women’s VABH in developing countries. This has been particularly challenging in countries like India, which host one of the largest numbers of the poor and has been increasingly plagued by droughts, floods, cyclones, rising temperatures, and increasing rainfall fluctuations. This study provides a conceptual discussion on the linkages between climate change and VABH and analyzes their empirical relationship using multiple rounds of nationwide household data from India (India Human Development Survey 2005, 2012; World Values Survey 2001, 2006, 2012); climate data; and data on women’s political representation at the district level. Our results suggest that in rural parts of India, adverse climate change and natural disasters, such as cyclones and/or floods, have consistently negative associations with a broad range of VABH-related outcomes. Moreover, in rural areas, greater political representation by women in district assemblies broadly mitigates the potential effects of adverse climate change on VABH-related outcomes. These patterns generally hold across various populations, differentiated by marriage status and age groups, and are more robust in rural compared to urban areas. There are also generally consistent gender differences in these associations. Specifically, results indicate that women’s VABH are disproportionately more negatively affected by adverse CC than men’s VABH, while greater female representation at local district assemblies has greater effects in mitigating adverse CC on VABH among women than men. The results underscore the importance of enhancing women’s political representation as a means to improve women’s VABH. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1269022025-12-02T21:03:03Z Climate change and women’s voice and agency beyond the household: Insights from India Takeshima, Hiroyuki Raghunathan, Kalyani Kosec, Katrina climate change climatic data cyclones data analysis decision making developing countries drought extreme weather events gender gender analysis gender equality gender equity in access to land global warming household economic resources flooding men natural disasters politics political systems poverty alleviation rain resilience role of women rural areas social networks social protection social structure storms women's empowerment voice weather hazards women political aspects weather households Women’s Voice & Agency beyond the household (VABH) has increasingly been recognized as critical to strengthening resilience, increasing women’s access to important resources, improving women’s decision-making power, and facilitating broader social networks (Njuki et al. 2022). Despite rapidly intensifying climate change in recent years, a knowledge gap persists as to how climate change may affect women’s VABH in developing countries. This has been particularly challenging in countries like India, which host one of the largest numbers of the poor and has been increasingly plagued by droughts, floods, cyclones, rising temperatures, and increasing rainfall fluctuations. This study provides a conceptual discussion on the linkages between climate change and VABH and analyzes their empirical relationship using multiple rounds of nationwide household data from India (India Human Development Survey 2005, 2012; World Values Survey 2001, 2006, 2012); climate data; and data on women’s political representation at the district level. Our results suggest that in rural parts of India, adverse climate change and natural disasters, such as cyclones and/or floods, have consistently negative associations with a broad range of VABH-related outcomes. Moreover, in rural areas, greater political representation by women in district assemblies broadly mitigates the potential effects of adverse climate change on VABH-related outcomes. These patterns generally hold across various populations, differentiated by marriage status and age groups, and are more robust in rural compared to urban areas. There are also generally consistent gender differences in these associations. Specifically, results indicate that women’s VABH are disproportionately more negatively affected by adverse CC than men’s VABH, while greater female representation at local district assemblies has greater effects in mitigating adverse CC on VABH among women than men. The results underscore the importance of enhancing women’s political representation as a means to improve women’s VABH. 2022-12-14 2023-01-11T19:53:40Z 2023-01-11T19:53:40Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126902 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294370 https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2103 https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12510 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Takeshima, Hiroyuki; Raghunathan, Kalyani; and Kosec, Katrina. 2022. Climate change and women’s voice & agency beyond the household: Insights from India. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2148. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126902 |
| spellingShingle | climate change climatic data cyclones data analysis decision making developing countries drought extreme weather events gender gender analysis gender equality gender equity in access to land global warming household economic resources flooding men natural disasters politics political systems poverty alleviation rain resilience role of women rural areas social networks social protection social structure storms women's empowerment voice weather hazards women political aspects weather households Takeshima, Hiroyuki Raghunathan, Kalyani Kosec, Katrina Climate change and women’s voice and agency beyond the household: Insights from India |
| title | Climate change and women’s voice and agency beyond the household: Insights from India |
| title_full | Climate change and women’s voice and agency beyond the household: Insights from India |
| title_fullStr | Climate change and women’s voice and agency beyond the household: Insights from India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate change and women’s voice and agency beyond the household: Insights from India |
| title_short | Climate change and women’s voice and agency beyond the household: Insights from India |
| title_sort | climate change and women s voice and agency beyond the household insights from india |
| topic | climate change climatic data cyclones data analysis decision making developing countries drought extreme weather events gender gender analysis gender equality gender equity in access to land global warming household economic resources flooding men natural disasters politics political systems poverty alleviation rain resilience role of women rural areas social networks social protection social structure storms women's empowerment voice weather hazards women political aspects weather households |
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