Gender Stereotyping of Women in Antarctica: The Mirror of Gendered World Ecosphere

• Main Authors: Pathani, Tanmay Singh, Sisodia, Shivali, Verma, Rakesh, T, Anitha C
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Advanced Research Publications 2015
• Subjects: Antarctica; Gender stereotyping; Travel memoire; Explorers in Antarctica; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://medical.adrpublications.in/index.php/Preventive-Curative-CommunityMed/article/view/476

Background and Objectives: Antarctica is a frozen, coldest, windiest, and driest place on earth with the highest average altitude. With photoperiods lasting six months it is one of the scenic wilds. In addition, it is the area of the planet which is preserved and turned as a natural laboratory. Unique traits of Antarctica have been dedicated to science and peace, a distinctive natural laboratory for research on the psychosocial adaptation of human beings to extremely severe circumstances.Antarctica with its unique and independent history gives rise to a very peculiar set of issues related to gender and feminist inquiry. In the 1960s, in other areas of science, women joined space missions and served on deep-sea submarine crews-conditions every bit as intimate and challenging as those in the Antarctic. Exploration was aimed to methodically link and shed light on gender roles, issues and norms of the world and how they are reciprocated and interpreted by women in lieu of their status in a universal continent governed by many nations but with no indigenous population.