Extreme Heat and Gender Inequality: A Comparative Look at Global and Indian Contexts
Eighty-one-year-old Felisa Cuc walks the path to her home in rural Sepur Zarco, Guatemala, trying to outrun the heat. Thousands of kilometres away, in a district in Rajasthan, another woman leaves before sunrise to fetch water, hoping to finish the walk before the day’s heat becomes unbearable. Neither woman set the thermostat on the planet….