Depletion Through Social Reproduction: A Major Barrier for Women’s Participation in Post Disaster Recovery Process in Bangladesh

Authors/ Publisher: Mir Tamanna Siddika

Abstract:

Abstract

Women do most of the social reproductive work.Performingthis work becomes more difficult in post disaster conditions. In this situation, along with the household responsibilities, women also have to involve inpaid activities. This increased burden of laborcan occur depletion of women.Though Bangladesh has adopted some gender-inclusive disaster management policies,these policies do not recognize the issue of depletion, which can reducewomen’s capacity to attend in the community recovery and rebuilding process.Therefore, the aim of thisarticleis to draw attentionto the issue of depletion of womenduring the post disaster period for taking necessary initiatives.