With a global commitment to achieve gender equality by 2030, the SDGs present a historic opportunity to place gender as central to human progress across the globe. Gender equality, which requires the empowerment of all women and girls, is an explicit goal, in addition to being a fundamental prerequisite to and facilitator of most other SDGs. This edited collection provides a range of geographical and geospatial insights, from a variety of disciplinary and country-specific perspectives, to better understand gender and sustainable development. In addition to several African countries, Mexico, Japan, Canada, USA, and Cambodia are featured. A range of topical case studies examine women’s domestic and care work, including water collection, breastfeeding, food purchasing, and caring for elderly family members. Access to health care services is examined in the case of breast screening and antenatal care. Women’s engagement in the labour force is also addressed, with a specific look at the renewable energy sector; structural barriers to employment are discussed across a number of chapters, with clear strategies to break through these barriers. Finally, theoretical insights are proposed in better understanding and engaging in gendered inequalities in health.
This edited collection provides a range of geographical and geospatial insights, from a variety of disciplinary and country-specific perspectives, to better understand gender and sustainable development.
1. Introduction; Part
1. SDG 5: Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women
and Girls;
2. Gender, Adolescents, and Achieving Sustainable Development
Goals in Ghana;
3. Sustainable Development Goals and the Internal Logics of
Gender Equality in the Liberian Context;
4. Global Trends in Womens
Employment in Renewable Energy: Continuities, Disruptions and Contradictions;
5. Producing Gender Statistics at Local Level: The Case of Mito-city, Japan;
Part
2. Target 5.4: Value Unpaid Care and Promote Shared Domestic
Responsibilities;
6. Gender Statistics, Geospatial Analysis and Sustainable
Development Goals: A Case Study of Mexico;
7. Understanding Womens Unpaid
Work and Domestic Work: Using Photovoice to Capture Immigrant Carer-employee
Experiences in Southern Ontario, Canada;
8. Resource insecurity and gendered
inequalities in health: a challenge to sustainable livelihood;
9. "Today
mens orientation has changed": gender and household water and sanitation
responsibilities in Ghana;
10. Canvas Totes and Plastic Bags: The Political
Ecology of Food Assistance Effectiveness at Farmers Markets in
Minneapolis-St Paul, USA; Part
3. Target 5.6: Universal Access to
Reproductive Health and Rights;
11. Internal Migration as a Determinant of
Antenatal Care in the Brong-Ahafo Region, Ghana: Does Length of Residence
Matter?;
12. Longitudinal analysis of progress in womens empowerment and
maternal mortality outcomes: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa;
13. Mental
Health, Quality of Life and Life Experiences of Ghanaian Women Living with
Breast Cancer;
14. Event-History Analysis of Determinants of Breastfeeding in
Cambodia: Evident from Demographic and Health Survey;
15. The World We Want:
The Development We Want
Allison Williams is Professor in the School of Earth, Environment & Society at McMaster University. She is trained as a health geographer in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research. She leads a partnership grant to create carer-inclusive workplaces.
Isaac Luginaah is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Western Ontario and member of the College of The Royal Society of Canada. His research interests include environment and health, population health, and GIS applications in health.
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