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This book explores the relationship between gender inequality and the energy business, examining how gender relates to the process of producing energy, the management of energy companies, and the consumption of energy in the public and private sphere. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from Africa, South Asia, Latin America and Europe, it examines how clean energy targets can transform the experience of women in the workplace, creating new opportunities and challenges.
This book knits together a variety of voices probing continuing and emerging gender inequality in energy, from a number of perspectives, geography, energy dimensions, environment, socio-political and economic contexts. Its multidimensional approach provides a textured analysis of women's experiences in the energy landscape, and proffers solutions for addressing the universality, yet contextually disparate impacts, of patriarchy and its intersections with another strands of inequality. It will be of great interest to academics studying energy capitalism, energy production, consumption, public policy and gender studies, as well as those practitioners and policymakers in the energy industry and relating to gender and equality in the workplace.
List of contents
1. Introduction.- Part I. Women and Gender Inequality in Energy Policy.- 2. Merging Local Content and Women's Economic Empowerment In Tanzania's Extractive Industries.- 3. Women's Empowerment through Electrification: What is the evidence from the Indian Subcontinent?.- 4. A Feminist Policy Analysis of the Gender and Climate Change Nexus in the Colombian Coal and Energy Sector.- Part II. Women and Gender Inequality in Energy Transition.- 5. Empowering Women in a Climate-Changing World Through Climate-Resilient Energy Access.- 6. The Energy Transition and Gender Considerations of the Workforce Transformation: A Critical Review of the Dutch Case.- 7. How to Build a Gender-Balanced Solar Sector Workforce in the Brazilian Energy Transition.- Part III. Women and Gender Inequality in Energy Communities.- 8. Gender-Just Energy Communities: A Catalyst for Sustainable and Just Development.- 9. Engendering the Energy Transition: Inspiring Examples of Gender-Just Citizen Energy Communities in Europe.- Part IV. Women at the Intersection of Gender and Energy Equality.- 10. Women in Energy Communities: An Intersectional Analysis of Their Participation.- 11. Gender and Energy Poverty in Africa: An Intersectional Approach.- 12. Participants or Recipients? Negotiating Gender and Energy as Empowerment in the Displaced Setting.- 13. Complex Intersections: Reflections on Women, Gender Inequality and Energy.
About the author
Natalia Rocha Lawton is an Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour at Coventry University, UK. Her research focuses on the social implications of economic deregulation of the energy sector on employment relations, gender and diversity.
Cynthia Forson is Reader in Human Resource Management and Director of External Engagement in West Africa at Lancaster University, UK, and based in Ghana. Her research focuses on gender inequality in the labour market and organisations and its intersection with other strands of inequality.
Summary
This book explores the relationship between gender inequality and the energy business, examining how gender relates to the process of producing energy, the management of energy companies, and the consumption of energy in the public and private sphere. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from Africa, South Asia, Latin America and Europe, it examines how clean energy targets can transform the experience of women in the workplace, creating new opportunities and challenges.
This book knits together a variety of voices probing continuing and emerging gender inequality in energy, from a number of perspectives, geography, energy dimensions, environment, socio-political and economic contexts. Its multidimensional approach provides a textured analysis of women’s experiences in the energy landscape, and proffers solutions for addressing the universality, yet contextually disparate impacts, of patriarchy and its intersections with another strands of inequality. It will be of great interest to academics studying energy capitalism, energy production, consumption, public policy and gender studies, as well as those practitioners and policymakers in the energy industry and relating to gender and equality in the workplace.
