by Salma Kadry
While water-related threats are pronounced across Iraqi society, their impacts are far from universal: water scarcity and its associated threats have important gender dimensions that shape how women and men experience and cope with these problems: Socially constructed norms and behaviors shape and consolidate structural and institutional discrimination and inequalities against women.
Egyptian gender expert Salma Kadry formulates recommendations on how to integrate women in water-related policies and responses and how to transform water-related threats into opportunities for advancing gender equality and female empowerment.