THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN VIETNAM
In recent years, droughts, salinization have become more frequent and severe in many parts of Vietnam, particularly in the central and southern regions. The climate crisis is not “gender neutral”. Women experience the greatest impacts of climate change, which amplifies existing gender inequalities and poses unique threats to their livelihoods, health, and safety. In particular, poor women often have less access to education, land use rights, agricultural extension services and on financial resources. That is why, they are more vulnerable to droughts, floods, crop failures when the supply of natural resources is increasingly limited. Their limited access to these issues often implies that they have less capacity to adapt to climate change, recover from disasters, or adjust to living conditions in response to environmental changes. The article will analyze these inequalities such as (1) The factors that drive gender inequalities (2) Why climate change matters for women? (3) How does droughts, floods and salinization affect vietnamese women? (4) The Vietnamese government's efforts in addressing issues related to women in the fight against climate change. (5) Suggest different measures to reduce the effect of climate change on women.
Gender, Women, Climate Change, Droughts, Floods, Salinization, Vietnam