In the survey of the Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP), when asked about the affected by natural disastersthe most affected are women because they have low productivity jobs and because they do work at home, explained, on La Mula TV, the Head of Opinion Studies of the IEP, the sociologist Patricia Zárate Ardela.
In the ‘Al Filo’ program, Zárate Ardela pointed out that for International Women’s Day the IEP made a report on labor segregation. Although women have made progress in education, since the educational gap between men and women has closed, in the labor issue, problems persist.
“Women tend to be employed in low-productivity activities and are very likely to be affected by demand; therefore, protests and floods affect these types of services much more,” he said.
In an interview with Javier Torres, the IEP principal investigator explained that women have this type of job because they often have no one to leave their children with or have care activities that must be carried outeither with older adults or with children.
“They have no one to take care of the people who are under their care or even do housework and they always have to be doing, washing, cooking, ironing. That affects women much more than men,” she stressed.
Zárate Ardela pointed out that the Economically Active Population (EAP) employed by women has not recovered as it has happened with men after the covid pandemic.
“That is one side and the other is that they remain in these types of occupations very vulnerable to any small change, any demand shock affects them (women) much more,” he said.
On the other hand, regarding who is responsible for disasters due to natural phenomena, the majority of people surveyed by IEP have responded that it is due to climate change or extreme weather conditions.
In this regard, the IEP researcher pointed out that “people think that the rains” and issues such as disasters are an “effect of nature.”
“Really, the damage should not be that strong. (…) It would not be so forceful if people’s lives were prepared to face possible changes of this type. I think people see it that way and on the subject of ourselves there is little awareness of climate change. More than an evaluation of what a government can do or not, I think it is seen as an issue more linked to climate change“said Zárate, who referred to the questions from the AmericasBarometer.
In addition, the people surveyed do not attribute as much responsibility to local governments, when they are the first level of response. For the IEP researcher, there is an aspect that citizens take into account and that is that many of the property titles in dangerous areas have been handed over by Cofopriindicating a “state hand” from the central government.
“The municipal authority also has an important role, especially for construction licenses, but it is also the one who gives you a title in an area that could be flooded. Now, it is true there are streams that have not had water in 30 years, people already you forget there was ever water out there,” he said.
Regarding the economic impact in a context of protests in some regions and disasters due to natural phenomena in others, Zárate maintained that people are worrying more about how to get ahead and “whatever they can protest in front of the government is really going to take up their time to be able to get what little they have.”
“What’s more, when we asked the question about the economic impact of the protests it was something similar, only that the concentration was in the South, where the protests affected economically to a great extent and especially women. In the case of the North, they have It has also been the floods. There are two crises and two effects: the protests on the one hand and the floods that have affected the economy, especially in some macro-zones,” he said.
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