“Life is inherently precarious, but human societies and economies are organized in ways that render some lives more precarious than others, often but not exclusively through the capitalist wage relation and the division of paid and unpaid labour”- Kendra Strauss (2017:4)
The above statement poignantly highlights how one’s gender identity in a world riddled with conflict and climate crisis can exacerbate the experience of precarity. Women and girls, especially in rural areas of developing economies, often find themselves in precarious situations both at work and at home owing to their meagre socio-economic entitlements. With the climate crisis making resources and opportunities further scarce in the rural areas and leading to loss of stable livelihoods, increased health risks, forced migration and deteriorating capacities to cope and adapt, the vulnerability of women and girls to GBV is growing. Climate change renders women’s and girls’ opportunities for education, healthcare, decent work and political participation increasingly bleak, worsening already skewed gender power relations and spiralling the debilitating effects of GBV.
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