Category: Gender Analysis

Case Study•Journal Article

Gender-role norms and livelihoods of female small-scale gold miners in Kenya: A qualitative study

2026

Artisanal and small-scale gold mining continues to grow worldwide and is linked to gendered labor divisions, limited economic opportunities, and exposure to unsafe working conditions. Women and men often hold…

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How to Mainstream Gender into National Waste Management Policy: Case Study from Uruguay

2025

UNEP’s International Environmental Technology Centre (UNEP-IETC) is actively promoting gender mainstreaming in waste management, recognizing that the sector is shaped by gender roles and inequalities despite being perceived as gender-neutral.…

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Gender, self-care and toxic exposures: a narrative review of personal care product use and health equity implications

2025

Background Personal care products (PCPs) are widely used across populations, yet their composition includes a range of hazardous chemicals that pose risks to human health and the environment. Emerging evidence…

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Toxic Sexual Politics: Toxicology, Environmental Poisons, and Queer Feminist Futures

2025

Toxic Sexual Politics shows how the founding fathers of US toxicology were ideologically aligned with the chemical industry and thus invented a science that could “make chemicals safe” as opposed…

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A/79/163: Gender and hazardous substances

2024

In the present thematic report to the General Assembly, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 54/10, the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound…

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Gender Gap in Chemistry, Still?!

2024

The purpose of this study is to investigate differences between women and men in chemistry, as reflected in their responses to a global gender gap survey. The survey was conducted…

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Why gender matters for addressing chemical pollution

2024

At a time when chemical management and governance are high on scientific and political agendas, we call on the scientific community to integrate gender into research on chemical pollution. Chemicals…

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Case Study

Tackling Toxics | Case Studies Kenya and Tunisia 2022

2023

The scoping study “Gender, Chemicals and Waste” was carried out in Kenya and Tunisia between January and June 2022 on behalf of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions secretariat. It…

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Combatting global plastic pollution – feminist perspectives for a gender-just approach

2023

By 2025, more than 12 billion tonnes of plastic had been produced globally. Plastic pollution is not gender neutral. At oil and gas extraction sites, women and Black, Indigenous and…

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Factsheet

The Role and Experience of Women in e-waste Management

2022

This short material provides an overview of how gender influences e-waste management and illustrates how e-waste sector presents an untapped opportunity for women to excel.

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Journal Article

Lysmeral Exposure in Children and Adolescences Participating in the German Environmental Survey (2012–2015): Integrating Sex/Gender into Analysis

2022

Comprehensive consideration of the biological and social diversities of sex and gender as well as their interdependencies is mostly missing in human biomonitoring (HBM) studies. Using the INGER sex/gender concept…

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The Role and Experience of Women in Plastic Waste Management

2022

This factsheet examines women’s roles in plastic waste management within a context of rapidly increasing global plastic waste and heavy reliance on informal systems in developing countries. It outlines how…

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Gender and medical waste in the time of COVID-19

2022

The waste management sector has seen significant impacts from the burgeoning COVID-19 waste problem including the high risk of exposure to both informal and formal waste workers. This sheet provides…

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Article

Gender – an essential substance for sustainable chemistry

2022

In July last year we, the MSP Institute – Multi-Stakeholder Processes for Sustainable Development, invited various stakeholders to discuss how to shape chemicals management in Germany in a gender-responsive way…

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Factsheet

Gender Equality and Mercury

2021

All people are exposed to mercury on some level, but the greatest concern revolves around the exposure of women of child-bearing age because of its impact on future generations. The…

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A review of the literature on gender and chemical fertiliser use in maize production in sub-saharan Africa

2021

Are there differences in men’s and women’s access to and use of fertiliser in sub-Saharan Africa? This article explores the issue through a systematic review of the extant literature on…

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Report

Women, Chemicals and the SDGs

2021

Gender review mapping with a focus on women and chemicals: impact of emerging policy issues and the relevancefor the sustainable development goals In line with the UNEP-IPEN partnership, the aim…

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Guide•Toolbox

Gender and Chemicals Road Map + Workbook

2021

To minimise negative impacts of chemicals on people and the environment as chemical production increases, future chemicals management must take into account the needs and realities of life for all.…

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Gender just chemicals policy together for a toxic-free future

2021

Plasticisers in plastic products, per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) in outdoor clothing, carpets or food packaging, formaldehyde in cosmetics – every day we are exposed to chemicals that are harmful…

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Video

Webinar 3: Gender and chemicals in practice

2020

Until now, concepts, methods and data for the integration of gender in concrete programs and projects on chemicals and waste are very rare. That’s why we want to create a…

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Journal Article

Troubling Figures: Endocrine Disruptors, Intersex Frogs, and the Logics of Environmental Science

2020

This essay examines the figure of the pesticide-exposed intersex frog, a canary in the coal mine for public endocrinological health. Through feminist science studies and critical discourse analysis, I explore…

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Potency and Power: Estrogen, Cosmetics, and Labeling in Canadian Regulatory Practices, 1939–1953

2020

Building on a rich body of feminist scholarship on estrogen, this account interrogates how potent estrogenic cosmetics and consumer product labels emerged together, through the regulatory practices of scientists and…

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Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) as Industrial and Settler Colonial Structures: Towards a Decolonial Feminist Approach

2020

Oil refineries and settler colonialism are not typically how feminist and environmental frameworks scope the problem of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Instead, it is much more common to find EDCs described…

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Sex and Gender Analysis of Toxicity and Epidemiology Data on Environmental Chemicals in the Three Major Toxicology Databases

2019

Background: As sex and gender are important considerations in the assessment of toxic chemicals, we investigated whether sex and gender issues have been adequately considered in toxicological databases. Materials and…

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Case Study•Report

Gender and waste nexus: Experiences from Bhutan, Mongolia and Nepal

2019

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released the report Gender and waste nexus: Experiences from Bhutan, Mongolia and Nepal, co-authored by GRID-Arendal, at the 8th ISWA World Congress in Bilbao, Spain.…

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Journal Article

Gender norms and health: insights from global survey data

2019

Despite global commitments to achieving gender equality and improving health and wellbeing for all, quantitative data and methods to precisely estimate the effect of gender norms on health inequities are…

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Guide

GENDER ANALYSIS AND ACTION PLAN FOR MONTREAL PROTOCOL PROJECTS

2018

This Gender Analysis and Gender Action Plan for UNDP Montreal Protocol projects in China, Nigeria and Peru was developed in October 2018 to support the ozone programme and projects in…

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Video

Chemical Entanglements – A Symposium on Gender and Exposure

2017

On May 4-5, 2017, we hosted the successful Chemical Entanglements: Gender & Exposure Symposium, which convened a group of scholars, scientists and community based researchers, artists, documentarians, and policy makers…

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Case Study

Gender Dimensions of Hazardous Chemicals and Waste policies under the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions

2017

The BRS Gender Action Plan (BRS-GAP) was finalized in December 2013 and aims to ensure that principles of gender equality are firmly embedded in activities undertaken by the Secretariat of…

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Guide•Law/Regulation

UNEP policy and strategy for gender equality and the environment

2015

For the first time, UNEP has adopted a comprehensive gender policy to guide it’s projects (e.g. ensuring women’s and men’s equal participation) and operations (e.g. via staff recruitment practices) are…

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Journal Article

From individual coping strategies to illness codification: the reflection of gender in social science research on Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS)

2014

Introduction Emerging fields such as environmental health have been challenged, in recent years, to answer the growing methodological calls for a finer integration of sex and gender in health-related research…

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Gender differences in health information behaviour: a Finnish population-based survey

2013

Narrowing the gaps in health outcomes, including those between men and women, has been a pronounced goal on the agenda of the Finnish health authorities since the mid1980s. But still…

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When gender bumps into health and safety training: working conditions, readings and challenges drawn from a case study in an industrial chemicals company

2012

Health, safety and environmental issues are at present a social concern and an increasingly referred topic in the so called gender studies. This paper focuses on the relations between training,…

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Training

Gender & Chemie

Die Lerneinheit Gender & Chemie liefert Grundlagen zum Verständnis, wie Chemie, Gender und Gesellschaft zusammenwirken. Ziel ist es, dass Sie mit diesen Grundlagen Genderaspekte für Ihre Arbeit in der Chemie…

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