Climate Change and its Impact on Women’s Mental Health

This talk looks at how changing weather, excessive heat, floods and more are causing mental distress to agricultural workers. Older women, already burdened by age-related health issues, are finding it harder  to cope. The burden on women is disproportionately higher—fetching firewood and water takes more time and energy as summers arrive earlier, last longer and are hotter than before. Cooking on burning fires adds to their overall heat stress, often a job they do outside the home as well.

This event is part of programming around Beneath the Turning Sky in collaboration with People’s Archives of Rural India (PARI)