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Our needs, our priorities; women and men from the slums in Mumbai and Pune talk about their needs for water and sanitation.
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This paper presents extracts from interviews with slum dwellers, primarily women, in Mumbai and Pune, and discusses the conditions they cope with every day with regard to water and sanitation, and the ways these conditions have changed over time. These women live in a variety of circumstances – on pavements, beside railway tracks, in swampy areas, on steep slopes – and this affects the particular problems they face. But in all cases, dealing with their needs for water and sanitation is a stressful and time-consuming challenge. These interviews provide the kinds of insights that rarely emerge in quantitative studies.
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“General harassment, including taunting, teasing, name calling, and throwing things at women or girls is more frequently observed in sanitation [138, 168, 174, 175, 181, 187, 190, 263] than water research [168,199] Sexual harassment, including verbal harassment, peeping, flashing, and male masturbation is also more frequently documented in sanitation [171-174, 189, 190, 214, 217, 226, 231, 233]”
From Water, sanitation, and women’s empowerment: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis (2022) · cites this paper as [168]
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“Women who withheld food and water or suppressed urination and defecation when lacking access to safe, clean latrines reported experiencing urinary tract infections, headaches, stomach aches, constipation, diarrhea, and other illnesses [135, 168, 172-174, 184, 190, 214, 248].”
From Water, sanitation, and women’s empowerment: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis (2022) · cites this paper as [168]
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“Women coped with sanitation stressors by seeking social support, withholding food or drink, or changing the timing of sanitation behaviors, though adaptations could also cause stress [168, 177, 184, 189].”
From Water, sanitation, and women’s empowerment: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis (2022) · cites this paper as [168]
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“Similarly, limited income and asset access and control, including over land, constrained women's access to sanitation [119, 124, 125, 135, 147, 168, 171, 174, 186, 187, 191, 217, 239, 240, 270] and limited independent decision-making about latrine construction [119, 124, 135].Women reported using public pay-per-use toilets [168, 171, 174, 227, 239, 270] and incurring higher costs than men due to”
From Water, sanitation, and women’s empowerment: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis (2022) · cites this paper as [168]
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“Time spent on sanitation has caused women to be late for work or suppress needs to avoid being late, [168, 173] work longer days if they needed to leave to use the toilet, [250] fail to complete household chores, [226] or be scolded or punished for taking too long.[189]”
From Water, sanitation, and women’s empowerment: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis (2022) · cites this paper as [168]
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“and aided women's water collection when queues were long [168].”
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“and to avoid harassment from community members when going to latrines and open defecation sites after dark [135,143,168,182,190,228,238].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bapat, M., & Agarwal, I.
- Affiliations
- 18 Madhav baug, Paud road, Pune 411 038, India;
- Sun Pharma Advanced Research (India) (IN)
- Corresponding author
- Bapat, Meera
- Venue
- Environment and Urbanization
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2003-10
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 71-86
- ISSN
- 0956-2478 (ISSN-L)
- 1746-0301
- OpenAlex
- W2056984836
- Cited by
- 166
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 7.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Environment and Urbanization (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Danish International Development Agency
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Studies and Social Issues
- Keywords
- slum dwellers, women's needs, water supply, sanitation, informal settlements, Mumbai, Pune, urban poverty, household coping strategies
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