Nelson's research promotes gender equity in sanitation

Featured Faculty: Kara L. Nelson

CEE Professor Kara Nelson's "Trisan: Going Beyond the Bowl to Achieve Gender Equality in Sanitation" project will help design and promote sanitation in the world's poorest places that works for women's needs, as well as men's.

Nelson and her colleague Berkeley Energy & Resources Professor Isha Ray believe the international community needs to start designing and promoting sanitation to achieve gender equality, in addition to public health.

“One of the core principles of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations was the principle of nondiscrimination,” said Isha Ray. “Human rights cannot discriminate by religion, gender, age, language, or sexual orientation. Yet I feel sanitation programs, with the best intentions in the world, in fact violate that core principle—because they’re geared toward defecation and not urination and menstrual hygiene management.”

See "Going Beyond the Bowl" to Achieve Gender Equity in Sanitation (Blum Center for Developing Economies, 12/15/15)

Published