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Disaster through a Feminist Lens: Epistemology, Methodology, and Methods
"The foregrounding of gender and, more importantly, the ways in which power produces structures of inequality that shape gendered disaster vulnerabilities have given way to feminist theorizing..." – By Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete
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Gender differences in risk perception: a review
"Men and women perceive risks differently. This difference is systematic and shows that women have a higher risk perception for most risks compared to men. In particular, women..." – By Misse Wester, Evelyn Salas Alfaro and Phu Doma Lama
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