Women's roles in a disaster |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Undergraduate Research Organization, Dhaka, Bangladesh;2. Department of Public Health & Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh;3. School of Public Health, Independent University, Dhaka, Bangladesh;4. MATERS Trust, Dhaka, Bangladesh;5. Climate Change Adaptation & Disaster Management Program, Friendship, Bangladesh;6. Department of Child Health and the Child Health Research Institute, The University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO 65201, USA |
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| Abstract: | In this study I examine women's roles in the 1997 Grand Forks flood. Based on field research and sixty in-depth interviews, I explore women's community, family, and work roles before, during, and after the disaster. By examining the ways in which women's roles shifted and the meanings the women attached to the roles, I find that the women experienced role accumulation, which resulted in an expansion of both their roles and their sense of self. By successfully performing the “greedy” family role, the emergent community role, and expanding work roles the women often discovered a new sense of confidence, self-worth, and competence. |
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