Natural disasters have disproportionately killed women and girls. Cyclone Gorky, which hit Bangladesh in 1991, caused around 140,000 deaths. The disparity between genders in terms of survival from this event was approximately 14:1. In other words, this cyclone killed 14 women for every man. Similarly, in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, 70 percent of the 250,000 fatalities were women.
Even when they survive an event, women and girls are then at greater risk than their male counterparts from post-disaster violence and exploitation. The 2010 Haiti earthquake offers an extreme example of this, with many reports of armed gangs targeting women and girls in displacement camps.
Some reasons are: women stay and try to rescue others, women aren't "allowed" to leave home so they perish, they can't swim because the culture doesn't allow it, and women's traditional clothing traps them. 😢
In cultures with more gender equality, women and men die at more equal rates. But post-disaster is always dangerous for women as the risk of sexual assault is very high (because scrotes aren't under social control)
So sad and so true.
Also, shelters need to be gender segregated so women can remove their hijabs. Otherwise they develop skin infections. Disaster relief areas are not always stocked with sanitary items so that us another hygiene/infection risk unique to women.
Before disaster strikes, public announcements are often braodcast in areas like mosques and other gathering places that traditionally exclude women, so women may not receive the warning early.
I highly reccomend the book Invisble Women by Caroline Criado-Perez for anyone who interested in this and similar topics.
Medications are not being tested with women in various stages of life (menstruating, on birth control, menopause, etc) because it's considered too costly by big pharma. When they say FDA approved, best case they tested it on men.
Women are also more likely to be more harmef in car accidents because cars are not built with woman's safety in mind.
I'm glad you connected the dots in the post, because I was gonna say that it's because of patriarchy.
If it doesn't play out the same way it plays out in nature, i.e., the female raising the offspring almost exclusively, it's because of patriarchy/slavery.
They're so obsessed with control that they'll let their daughters die.