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Worldwide, disasters are recognized to be gender sensitive. Women play a vital part of disaster response efforts, developing specific knowledge and skills in contexts of threat, although the prevailing social imbalances and lower socio-economic status influence and make unequal and unfair women’s response and recover to disasters. Despite the singularities found in each disaster situation, referred to the context – significance of the moment, place, and circumstances in which people live – and the typology of hazards, there is no disagreement about the importance of strategies for disaster risk reduction be designed in association with pre-existing social and economic conditions, combined with a need to identify potential human resources and capacities to achieve safer and more resilient spaces. The overall objective of this research project was to identify whether gender inequalities present themselves as a condition of differential impact and capacities to tackle disasters in Brazil, embracing women’s roles as a window of opportunity for new ways of dealing with disasters. The first challenge to be surpassed was to identify who dies from natural hazards in Brazil. Through the analysis of the Brazilian Data Mortality of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, from 1979 to 2019, we examine the distribution of natural hazard fatalities in the national territory, their periodicity, and the number and characteristics of the affected victims. We find out lightning is the deadliest natural hazard in Brazil, but since 2010 there is a sudden increment of hydro-meteorological fatalities as consequence of very few but large-scale disasters. The number of male fatalities is higher for every category of natural hazards, and the single victims dye the most. A deep analysis of the spatial and temporal distribution of fatalities of hydro-meteorological disasters in the national territory over different periods reveals that Brazilian large-scale disasters determine Brazilian fatalities standards being January and SH summer the periods with higher number of fatalities. Territorially, the Southeast region is where most of the registered fatalities are concentrated and Rio the Janeiro State with the higher number of fatalities. Seeking to understand gender differential impact and their roles in disaster contexts we develop an intersectional analysis of Brazilian hydro-meteorological disasters from 2000 to 2019 through data mortality disaggregated by sex, age, and race. Social inequalities exist and are gender and race-sensitive in Brazil, and despite the socially constructed disparities between white men and black women, and everyone in between, over the last two decades, women have been more capable of surviving from hydrometeorological hazards. The differences in the number of fatalities between white and non-white male victims are high and unquestionable, but the differences into the Brazilian female group are subtle. This result posed the challenge to identify the factors that make certain people more capable of anticipating, responding to and surviving from disasters. Facing this challenge and in between the COVID-19 pandemic we developed the Sobrevidas©, an online platform accessible by a mobile phone created to collect data and stories from disaster survivors, with no territory frontiers. Through Sobrevidas© we recognized a few and important female victims of the 2011 Rio de Janeiros Serrana Region tragedy acknowledging the potentiality of the tool to access those community-based involved in disaster response, survival, and recover and identify women’s capabilities for a safer condition of living. We live on a planet under pressure where the conversion of ecosystem services, land use, biodiversity loss, planetary thresholds, and food, water, and energy security is at riska changing planet destabilized by human perturbation with chances of no return to its original equilibrium. The increase in frequency and intensity of extreme climate events amplifies the severity of natural hazards and, consequently, the challenges that social systems face, especially for those who already experience vulnerabilities in their daily lives. Through this thesis development, Brazilian women have proven to be more capable to survive of disasters despite all inequalities. Brazilian science, decisionmakers, and society must recognize it and empower womens grassroots initiatives and participation in decision-making on prevention, response, and recovery from disasters in an unequal society threat by global change.