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  • From the Kitchen to the Boardroom: reflections on power relations in gender and energy practice and policy

    From the Kitchen to the Boardroom: reflections on power relations in gender and energy practice and policy

    The author argues that, in order to succeed in identifying energy needs, it is not sufficient to accurately describe women’s roles but that the emphasis should be on the broader context of the social and power relationships involved in day-to-day activities. She compares and contrasts the domestic responsibilities of two women, one from a middle-class…

  • ENERGIA News 4, October 1997 – The role of women in rural energy programmes: Issues, problems and opportunities

    In the rural areas of India and other third world countries, women have traditionally shouldered the responsibility of managing the domestic energy requirements for their families. As the predominant sources of fuel are derived from biomass resources, women have a very intrinsic and symbiotic relationship with their surrounding natural resource system. However, due to a…

  • Wood Energy, Women, and Health

    Wood Energy, Women, and Health

    This special edition of Wood Energy News on ‘Wood Energy, Women, and Health’ focuses on the health hazards related to the supply and use of biomass energy. It is mostly women who are at risk, and so gender aspects must be major considerations in addressing the problems involved in gathering,transporting, processing etc.

  • ENERGIA News 1, December 1996 – Energy for Women and Women for Energy: A proposal for women’s energy entrepreneurship

    It is well known that women usually bear the burden of providing biomass fuels for daily domestic use. Less well known is the extent to which human energy is an essential element in the household economy. The results of a case study of a typical village in Karnataka, India, can be used to demonstrate this.…

  • Gender and energy planning

    This paper highlights a number of different positions that can be taken regarding the reason for and purpose of a gender approach in energy planning. The two extreme positions ‘gender for efficiency’ and ‘gender for equity’ are described. Most energy planners are found somewhere in between these extremes. Next the question of how the gender…

  • Gender and wood energy

    Gender and wood energy

    This special edition of Wood Energy News on ‘Gender and Wood Energy’ focuses on a number of issues: it aims to answer why gender in wood energy development is important to take into account, presents gender analysis tools, describes the institutionalisation of the gender approach, country papers on gender and wood energy, and presents the…

  • ENERGIA News 1, December 1996 – From Rio to Beijing: Engendering the energy debate

    New perspectives in the energy sector adopted at the Rio Conference, and new approaches to gender issues discussed at the Beijing Conference, are especially congenial to the adoption of a gender approach in energy policy and planning at this time. This article suggests that mutual concerns in energy fora and gender circles, jointly addressed, could…

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