Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

Men and women, boys and girls have different experiences of disasters. Gender dynamics
impact both the way they are affected by disasters and their capacity to withstand and …

LGBTQ+ communities comprise 16 million individuals in the United States, yet this
population is often rendered invisible within disaster policies. Bias in federal disaster …

In rural Bangladesh, patriarchal gendered norms aggravate the vulnerability of women to
disasters such as floods because of male dominance in access to resources and decision …

This chapter focuses on the contributions of sociologists who study the root causes and
social consequences of everyday emergencies, disasters, and large-scale catastrophes. It …

Disaster management is a global challenge, but disasters do not affect men and women
equally. In most of the world's disasters, more females are impacted than males, and in …

With growing interest in the lives of individuals and communities during the COVID‐19
pandemic, there is consensus among scholars, academicians, and policy makers that the …

► Epidemics are a gendered vulnerability, with their socioeconomic impact
disproportionately high among women, even when, as it seems the case with COVID-19 …

In April 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the Gorkha district of Nepal. This was followed
in May by a second earthquake. Nepal experienced another natural disaster in 2017. Floods …

In mainstream social imaginaries, wildfires are still a 'manly'issue. Addressing the question
'how are women depicted in the literature of wildfires?'this paper systematically analyses …