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Gender and Pollution Factsheet: Marine
Summary
This factsheet reviewed how marine pollution — including plastic debris, microplastics, and chemical contaminants like mercury — affects human health with a gender perspective. It notes that women and men in coastal communities face different exposures and vulnerabilities to marine pollutants, particularly through seafood consumption.
Both men and women are vulnerable to marine debris, microplastics and chemicals. An example is mercury, which bioaccumulates in food. As a result, women and men face health deterioration, especially if they belong to poor, coastal communities with lower adaptive capacities.