WomenÕs Perceptions of Environmental Change in Egypt: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 23, No. 4

This research focuses on exploring and explaining women's perceptions of and social responses to environmental change. Viewing risk selection and perception as Ôdynamic processesÕ that are continuously changing and being reinterpreted through people's Ôworldviews,Õ it examines how pollution and decline of environmental conditions come to be regarded by Egyptian women as Ôrisky.Õ The research was conducted in three structurally different urban settings with different levels of exposure to pollution and different socio-economic levels of their residents. Data were generated by means of in-depth interviews with forty-four women from different walks of life. The research is gender specific, given the primary role of women as health care managers of their families. Thus, for women, environmental issues and health issues are closely related.
Vol. 23 No. 4