
Sample Term Paper
Sample term paper on the topic “The
Gendered Terrain of Disaster”
…The results of this study suggest that
gender is significant and explanatory in the nine stages of a disaster. Most of the results are presented as
gender "differences."
Gender differentiation, conceptually, does not mean in
equality, as "different" does not mean "unequal." Yet, feminist theory documents how
gender stratification and
gender differentiation are often nearly identical empirically, as anything "female" has come to be devalued. The patterns revealed in the work are patterns of in
equality, not solely of difference. The disaster data presented here advance the notion that women's lower status and lack of economic power in so called "normal" times has serious ramifications in a disaster situation. The studies illustrate women's subordinate position in many ways, such as women's lack of decision-making power in evacuation, their dismissal by officials as "hysterical," the denial of leadership positions to women in emergency management, women's subjection to domestic violence, and the devaluation of women's work throughout the disaster process. Disasters, like no disaster periods, are a time and place where
gender in
equality is maintained and reproduced…