Paper on water carrying
In this paper gender differences in water carrying are considered and data about water access and carrying summarized from 44 countries that participated in the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) program.
Only recently, under pressure from such groups as Women For Water Partnership, has gender-specific analysis of waterrelated policy issues been given attention. Water fetching has a complex place in the social life of communities, and we attempt herein to identify key considerations, including relative burden, so as to allow for a more subtle understanding of population differences inwater carrying. Multiple demographic characteristics likely enter in (for example, gender, class, caste, and race); we focus herein on gender, which, across time and locale, appears to be an important consideration in water fetching.
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In this paper gender differences in water carrying are considered and data about water access and carrying summarized from 44 countries that participated in the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) program.
Only recently, under pressure from such groups as Women For Water Partnership, has gender-specific analysis of waterrelated policy issues been given attention. Water fetching has a complex place in the social life of communities, and we attempt herein to identify key considerations, including relative burden, so as to allow for a more subtle understanding of population differences inwater carrying. Multiple demographic characteristics likely enter in (for example, gender, class, caste, and race); we focus herein on gender, which, across time and locale, appears to be an important consideration in water fetching.
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