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Impact of Climate Change on Womens Health
on 11.03.2015
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| Ms. Mirudula Ramesh, Executive Director, SundaramTextiles Ltd, delivers a guest lecture on “Impact of Climate Change”. |
The Women’s Studies Centre of Thiagarajar College organized a Guest Lecture on
“Impact of Climate Change on Women’s Health” on 11.3.2015. Dr. M. Eyini, Director of the Centre welcomed the participants
and highlighted the need for such.
Dr. T. Rajasekar, Principal of the college talked on the importance of health.
Dr. Uma Kannan, Vice President and Secretary of Thiagarajar College presided over the function.
She highlighted the need for creating awareness about the impact
of environmental hazards and climate change on women’s health to the students.
Ms. Mridula Ramesh, Convenor, Indian Women Network Madurai Zone & Executive Director,
Sundaram Textiles Ltd, Madurai delivered a special address on climate change and its impacts on women and how
to overcome the after effects of the changes in climate.
She initiated her address by posing many questions like“Are we equal?
Are we equal at birth? Are you a person who can also make decision?”
Then she highlighted such unanswered questions by inquiring the students for answers.
Such questions were answered with a “No” by the students.
Ms. Mridula Ramesh shared some of the most important impacts of climate changes on
women which included Role Vulnerabilities, Care of Children, Care of Household, Collection of Water and Personal safety.
She stated that during the time of disaster and combating with a risk, only the woman plays a vital role in shouldering the
responsibility of caring for the children. The second most challenging task she mentioned was caring for the household, which
includes usage of Chula (wood fuel stoves) which causes pollution and
leads to health issues such as Asthma, low birth weight babies and prematurebirths.
Later she shared one of the most important uncertainties such as drought & drying up of waterresources in rural areawhere women had to walk long distances to procure water. Another challenging issue she mentioned was the personal safety of women in reference to the domestic abuse and violence cases.
Finally, she suggested a few solutions to overcome these impacts, which included increasing access to finance and insurance for women, increasing access to training the technological aspects for women, utilization of hand pumps in villages and supplying vitamins and nutritional supplements for rural women and children. Better cooking stoves can be provided inorder to avoid the effects of pollution.
She also mentioned that saving water was the first step towards our contribution to curbing climate change.
Dr. V. Subathra Devi, Head of the Department of English proposed the vote of thanks.
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