This research focuses on exploring and explaining women‎'‎s perceptions of and social responses to environmental change‎.‎ Viewing risk selection and perception as ‎"‎dynamic processes‎"‎ that are continuously changing and being reinterpreted through people‎'‎s ‎"‎worldviews‎,‎‎"‎ it examines how pollution and decline of environmental conditions come to be regarded by Egyptian women as ‎"‎risky‎.‎‎"‎ The research is gender specific‎,‎ given the primary role of women as health care managers of their families‎.‎ Thus‎,‎ for women‎,‎ environmental issues and health issues are closely related‎.‎