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Females are more vulnerable to death than males during disaster

Able people fled to safety leaving dependents l»ehind
Women are more exposed to deaths than men at times of natural disaster because of various reasons in a male dominated society like ours, reports BSS.
This was observed by three women officials of different organisations and a woman Journalist of. The Daily Star at an open discussion on "women to face calamity* organised by Narlpakkha. a women welfare organisation, at the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Dhaka on Tuesday evening.
They said from their personal experiences gained from cyclone affected areas of Chittagong and Cox's Bazar districts that the less mobile people including women in greater number died during the catastrophe than their male counterparts.
Ms Hasna Hena of World Food Programme, who visited some areas for relief distribution, said that the able people fled to safety during the disaster leaving their wives, children and parents in the lurch. "Some of them defying the warning signals went for fishing while their wives were washed away with their children by the tides.* she said.
Ms Hena also pointed out the dress of the rural women was partly responsible for their deaths sin such calamity as this kind of dress made them less mobile.
Ms Sona Bari, a reporter of The Dally Star, who visited
to the tide of the sea. "Some women were seen dead holding strongly their babies unto their breasts." she said.
Ms Kharunnessa of Ganasasthya Kendra said that the men had reportedly fled to safety leaving their wives and other family members in the mouth of tidal surge. "At this stage, the women with their children and other less mobile family members were I in a fix." she said.
Ms Rashida Begum of Oxfam said she heard that unscrupulous people had gone on a stealing spree of ornanfents of i the dead women instead of burring them.
The speakers also charged that the women were pushed forward to receiving relief ; materials from various organisations in the areas they said that the men were seen stand-I Ing a little far away from the
distribute >n centres.
In som' “ areas, they said. It was seen that women with their child ren were waiting for hours tog< ither for a piece of bread or i »ome rice but their husbands < ir brothers were not seen there.
It was also widely observed that women first came forward to bring the scattered household mater lais to order, they said.