Misunderstanding gender in water: Addressing or reproducing exclusion (original) (raw)

2005

Abstract

This chapter argues that the current approach of the domestic water supply sector to gender is based on a misunderstanding of the concept of gender, which results, at best, in a failure to address exclusion and, at worst, in a reproduction of existing practices of exclusion. This has negative effects on the very people current water policies aim to assist-including the poorest women. Gender theory stresses that gender is related to. but distinctly different from sex (Oakley 1972).

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