Women are disproportionately expected to care for those who are sick from heat. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MUMBAI/LAGOS/LONDON - Women will bear the brunt of extreme heat as more frequent heatwaves on a warming planet pose a growing threat to their work, earnings and lives, researchers have warned.
“Women are not only more susceptible to physically getting sick from heat, they’re also disproportionately expected to care for everyone else who’s sick from heat, whether that’s paid care or unpaid care,” Ms McLeod told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Much of these heat-related productivity losses - pegged at about US$120 billion each year across the three countries - are in the context of unpaid household work and linked to lack of access to domestic cooling equipment, according to the research.
Nigeria accounts for 20 per cent of global maternal deaths – 58,000 women per year - said the Arsht-Rock report, citing World Health Organisation data, and heat adds yet another complication. Women in India lose nearly a fifth of their paid working hours to heat, and extreme heat is pushing female wages below the poverty line in sectors including agriculture, which accounts for 70 per cent of total female employment, the report found.
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