Gender in Disaster

In The Women of Katrina edited by Emmanuel David and Elaine Enarson, women specifically low income African American women who have become single mothers struggle during the face of disaster. This spinet also reveals other groups such as disabled people, the elderly, and children are all vulnerable during a disaster. In Men, Masculinities and Disaster also by Elaine Enarason and Bob Pease focus is put on how and why gender inequality happens during a disaster.In this review Rachel Luft analyzes how women get left out of the  decision making process. While The Women of Katrina the different effects that women get from a disaster are analyzed, Men, Masculinities and Disaster analyzes how different type of men are treated.
In disasters I believe that harm is done to a man and women's mind. However, race, gender, and economic status also influences a person's well being. As a person who has gone through a natural disaster I believe that it is hard on the whole community. During that disaster, watching my mother, a single mom struggle to get our family back on its feet was a terrible thing to experience but I am more than sure it was harder on her. This relates to The Women of Katrina when gender-fair relief is brought up. I understand that equal treatment is ideal but sometimes equitable tratment is better than equal.
FEMA- Federal Emergency Management Agency (fema.gov.)
Inexorably-impossible to stop or prevent (Webster Dictionary)
Autonomy- the right or condition of self-governed (Webster Dictionary)