{"id":1377,"date":"2005-02-23T06:23:06","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T14:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/23\/traditional-gneder-roles-deadly-to-women-in-tsunami\/"},"modified":"2005-02-23T06:23:06","modified_gmt":"2005-02-23T14:23:06","slug":"traditional-gneder-roles-deadly-to-women-in-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1377","title":{"rendered":"Traditional gender roles deadly to women in Tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Women’s Enews article <\/a>suggests that women were more likely than men to be killed by a Tsunami because many aspects of women’s traditional gender roles made it more difficult for women to flee or swim.<\/p>\n

While official statistics are not yet available, grass-root organizations helping with relief operations in Sri Lanka, say women and children were the majority of the 30,000 total deaths currently tied to the tsunami.<\/p>\n

Many of the losses are being tied to gender roles and styles–such as women’s long hair, confining saris, extreme sense of modesty and selfless commitment to husbands and children–that hindered their ability to escape. […]<\/p>\n

Fernando, who has worked for years with rural women, says that most of the village women who drowned in the huge wave were wearing traditional saris that restricted them from running and also weighed them down when they became water logged after the sea swept into their homes.
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\nSaris Are Rural Dress Code<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the majority of women in the cities have adopted Western dress styles–pants and dresses with hemlines around the knee and higher–90 percent of poor and rural women wear saris on a daily basis, says Saganka Perera, a professor of sociology at Colombo University. Others may wear long dresses with sleeves. […]<\/p>\n

An even more important distinctions, she says, is that, in order to preserve their modesty, few rural women have been taught to swim. Rural women, Perera says, even bathe–usually at wells–while covered in long cloth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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