Aspects

• Reproduction: Because women and men have different reproductive organs, there is a gender specific need for protection.
  
  
• Male bias: Safety regulations are often based on medical examinations which are implicitly oriented to the norm of the male body. How can the “hidden gender” in regulations be rendered visible and extended to include the female dimension?
  
  
• Risks: Radiation increases the risk of cancer. Experience shows that men are less rigorous in attending preventive examinations than women. How can men be made aware of the risks for their own protection? What explanatory measures are aimed specifically at men?
  
  
• Protection as discrimination: Current protective provisions have undesirable “side effects”, in that they restrict the access of women to certain jobs and career opportunities in relation to men. What can be done to fight discriminatory risks and side effects?
  
  
• Representation – segregation: Nuclear technology, nuclear physics and reactor safety are predominantly male dominated fields of research and work. How can female perspectives be included here? How can the power of decision making and expertise be shared equally between men and women?

Commission of the European Communities, year not given, Guide to Gender Impact Assessment.

Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE): Project: Research on Gender and Environment

Bundesministerium des Inneren (Hg.): Gemeinsames Ministerialblatt – Allgemeine Verwaltungsvorschrift zur Ausführung des Gesetzes über die Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung (UVPVwV) vom 18. September 1995, Bonn.

Hayn, Doris; Schultz, Irmgard: Gender Impact Assessment im Bereich Strahlenschutz und Umwelt – Abschlussbericht, Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung (ISOE) im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, Frankfurt a. M. 2002