Department of Sociology, Lund University, Box 114, SE-221 00, Lund, Sweden.
Disasters. 2012 Oct;36(4):589-608. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2012.01276.x. Epub 2012 Feb 22.
For more than a decade the humanitarian community has been mandated to mainstream gender in its response to crises. One element of this mandate is a repeated call for sex-disaggregated data to help guide the response. This study examines available analyses, assessments and academic literature to gain insights into whether sex-disaggregated data are generated, accessible and utilised, and appraised what can be learned from existing data. It finds that there is a gap between policy and practice. Evaluations of humanitarian responses rarely refer to data by sex, and there seems to be little accountability to do so. Yet existing data yield important information, pointing at practical, locally-specific measures to reduce the vulnerability of both males and females. This complements population-level studies noting the tendency for higher female mortality. The study discusses some possible obstacles for the generation of data and hopes to spur debate on how to overcome them.
十多年来，人道主义界一直受命将性别平等纳入应对危机的主流。这一任务的一个要素是反复呼吁按性别分类的数据，以帮助指导应对工作。本研究审查了现有的分析、评估和学术文献，以深入了解是否按性别分类生成、提供和利用数据，并评估可以从现有数据中吸取哪些经验教训。研究发现，政策和实践之间存在差距。人道主义应对措施的评估很少提及按性别分类的数据，而且似乎很少有对此负责的机制。然而，现有数据提供了重要信息，指出了减少男性和女性脆弱性的实际、具体的地方措施。这与指出女性死亡率较高的人口水平研究相辅相成。本研究讨论了生成数据可能面临的一些障碍，并希望激发关于如何克服这些障碍的辩论。
