Course:VANT149/2021/Capstone/Arts/Team40-2
Project Title
A Critical Analysis of Climate Change and Gender Inequality in Southeast Asia
Student Researchers
| Hayoung Yang |
| Jiayi Dong |
| Yiming Xu |
What is your Research Question?
Is There A Relationship Between Climate Change and Gender Inequality in Southeast Asia?: Exploring in the Context of Gender Wage Gap
Research proposal keywords or concepts
Climate Change; Gender Inequality; Wage gap
How would you summarize your proposed research idea?
The gender discrimination takes place in Southeast Asia and women are negatively influenced by climate change because of the severe gender inequality. Both psychological thoughts and social status show the affects of climate change to women.
Where is the literature gap and how does your proposed research attempt to fill that gap?
The awareness of gender inequality caused by climate change is well researched in Africa and South Asia (Balehey et al., 2018), however, the awareness of it from local areas in Southeast Asia are researched poorly. Thus, our project might highlight the degree of local awareness by seeing the problem through gender wage gap along with the researcher-created questionnaire survey.
Why is this gap worthy of research?
According to Tandon (2020), more than 70% of women in Southeast Asia are suffering from enduring gender inequalities which the proportion includes the impact from climate changes. Therefore, a qualitative inquiry on gender wage gap can contribute to identify and inform the urgency of providing gender-based climate change adaptation capacity.
The findings of the proposed study may help us to understand the relationship between the climate change and gender inequality. Overall, this present study may provide the possible solution which make balance between the different genders. In a world without discrimination, our future can be fully sustainable.
What made your group interested in and/or what excites you about your proposed topic?
Southeast Asian countries are more vulnerable to climate disasters compared to developed countries. Severe Climate change has a significant impact on everyone. However, certain genders are more victimized and negatively suffered. We became interested in Southeast Asia’s gender inequality after accessing the ‘Me-too movement.’ we anticipate that this study can bring people’s awareness of southeast Asia’s gender inequality issue. Also, the research can explore the local’s positions and promoting remedies to reduce the gap between males and females to balance their sustainable life.
References
Balehey, S., Tesfay, G., & Balehegn, M. (2018). Traditional gender inequalities limit pastoral women’s opportunities for adaptation to climate change: Evidence from the Afar pastoralists of Ethiopia.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Tandon, A. (2020). Tackling gender inequality is 'crucial' for climate adaptation. Carbon Brief. https://www.carbonbrief.org/tackling-gender-inequality-is-crucial-for-climateadaptation