Çoban, Büşra Nurİnal Onal, Ebru2025-01-272025-01-2720232047-08942047-0908https://doi.org/10.1108/IJES-08-2022-0044https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/28468Purpose: This study aims to identify levels of gender perception specific to disaster management process and gender-related factors among the health workers employed at Çan State Hospital, Turkey. Design/methodology/approach: The study was carried out with a survey form consisting of 41 questions created by researchers with 207 health workers working at Çan State Hospital and by means of face-to-face interview technique. SPSS ver. 19.0 statistics software package was used in the research for analysis of data. Findings : Of the participants, 70.24% had experienced a disaster before; 88.03% reported that women and men were equally affected by disasters and 72.94% reported that women and men were equally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of the participants (70.29%) reported that the COVID-19 pandemic affected health workers of both genders equally. The health workers who consider that the disaster legislation is gender-sensitive, who have attended any disaster response training and who consider that women are included in the fragile/vulnerable group in disaster response activities have been found out to have significantly higher gender perception scores specific to disaster management process (p < 0.05). Most of the participants stated that both genders were affected equally by the disasters they experienced, which manifests that they adopted an egalitarian approach. Practical implications: This study revealed the importance of providing disaster training for health workers to improve the gender perceptions. It is of high significance to integrate gender into the disaster trainings. Originality/value: This study identifies and evaluates health workers' disaster-specific perceptions of gender, and necessary response activities can be performed accordingly.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessDisaster managementHealth workersGenderTurkeyArticle12218619610.1108/IJES-08-2022-0044N/AWOS:0008716589000012-s2.0-85140377098Q3