| Summary: | This paper has been published in Peer-reviewed International Journal "Shrinkhla Ek Shodhparak Vaicharik Patrika" URL : https://www.socialresearchfoundation.com/new/publish-journal.php?editID=7772 Publisher : Social Research Foundation, Kanpur (SRF International) Abstract : On a worldwide scale, the climate catastrophe is a great struggle. The impacts on the ecosystem, income, trade, health, and security of persons in different facets of the economy are extensive. Climate instability contributes to elevated temperatures, natural disasters, diseases, water scarcity, erratic monsoons, ocean acidification, and forest fires. This paper examines the effects of the climate crisis on women's health to comprehend the economic and social structure of their daily lives as a consequence of disasters, along with presenting a theoretical framework with the target of understanding the burden placed on girls to drop out of their education and assist their parents with chores at home. Climate change poses a threat to safe drinking water, health and hygiene, mental disorders, psychological distress, illnesses that impacts the mother's health, pregnancy through transmitted diseases, and growing exposure to heat waves, sick building syndrome, and food insecurity with an unbalanced diet leading to undernourishment. The study is conducted using secondary data from different sources like World Bank, The United Nations Framework and Convention on Climate Change, World Health Organization (WHO), World Meteorological Organization, and The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This research paper attempts to analyze that during adverse situations such as droughts, floods, and pandemics, women are anticipated to change their focus of energy towards the home and family duties, providing them with a lesser amount of time for studying, generating a livelihood, training, and education. Climate change causes hardship and suffering for families, especially in the countryside, wherein women suffer more than men. The result of the same ...
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