Women\'s Encounter With Disaster

The world is facing increasingly frequent and intense disasters, both natural and man-made, with devastating impacts. Women play a pivotal role in providing economic and mental assistance to the family and community in post-disaster rebuilding activities and at the same time actively participate in disaster deterrence programmers. Post-disaster recovery projects often fail to understand the significance of gender relations in people\'s lives in a society and formulate policies without appreciating local cultural practices and institutions, resulting in Iqss of traditional sources of status and power of women. The volume covers topics that integrate the gender perspective into all natural disaster-related policies and decision-making processes with due consideration to the cultural, economic and political and social differences. It argues that absence of women from all levels of decision-making positions jeopardizes the sustainability of planning and implementation of safety codes.