Short description:

This book sheds light on the important and mostly neglected role that gender plays in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, investigating three key problem areas: empowerment, education and infrastructure. 

Long description:

This book sheds light on the important and mostly neglected role that gender plays in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, doing so by investigating three key problem areas: empowerment, education, and infrastructure.

Starting with a theoretical and methodological framework, this edited collection contains 12 chapters from scholars and researchers from around the world. The book includes numerous case studies discussing the current status of gender equality relating to the SDGs. It reinforces the significance of gender for sustainable and just development, highlighting how women play a major role in work organization, disaster management, income, household maintenance, and mediation of knowledge. "Women" as a classification encompasses much diversity with many intersecting axes of difference; this book focuses on the excluded and disadvantaged majority social group, without imposing homogeneity on that categorization. Many chapters focus on critical situations occurring in the Global South, where these issues are highly prominent, and importantly, these contributions are written by local scholars. Finally, the volume provides pathways for basic and professional gender responsive education and innovation in the field.

The book will generate important discussions in interdisciplinary research and higher education settings focusing on sustainable development, gender, equality, human rights, and education.

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction PART I Empowerment 2 Engendering sustainability transitions by design: How to critically unpack gender in Transition Management 3 Gender within sustainable decisions: A 3-D sustainability perspective 4 Gender mainstreaming in occupational health and safety: Challenges in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals 5 Gender inequity related to climate risks: Cultural vulnerabilities as obstacles to sustainability in rural communities of Mexico PART II Education 6 Sustainable gender equality: Opening the black-box of quality assessment in higher arts education 7 Sensitizing Nepalese students for gender mainstreaming in sustainable planning and design 8 Communication design to foster gender equality: Research and experimentation in the educational field 9 Responsible tech-futures: Female artists as semantically sustainable tech developers PART III Infrastructure 10 Changing traditions: The case of Amazonian riverine women and Belo Monte hydropower dam 11 Reimagining the gender roles within Japan to achieve sustainable gender equality 12 Gender and sustainability in Ovac?k and Hozat cooperative activities, Tunceli Province, Turkey