Introduction: Gender and Energy – Opportunities for All

Ana Pueyo

doi:10.19088/1968-2020.102

Abstract

The global drive to provide universal access to sustainable and modern energy by 2030 is creating numerous opportunities for energy users and suppliers. However, men and women do not benefit equally from these opportunities. As users, they have different energy needs linked to their different gender roles. Gender blindness in the sector has led to women’s needs often being ignored. As suppliers, the energy sector has traditionally been male dominated. Despite stark gender differences in the energy sector, there has been a lack of evidence to inform more equitable policymaking. This issue of the IDS Bulletin aims to fill some of these evidence gaps through five original papers, part of ENERGIA’s Gender and Energy Research Programme. The issue pays particular attention to women’s involvement in the supply chain as energy entrepreneurs, an emerging area of research in the gender and energy space.

Highlights

ENERGIA is the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, founded in 1996, with the goal of providing energy sector stakeholders with evidence and advocacy to improve the gender equality of their projects, programmes, and policies
Gender and Energy – Opportunities for All* Ana Pueyo1 AbstractThe global drive to provide universal access to sustainable and modern energy by 2030 is creating numerous opportunities for energy users and suppliers
3 Contributions to this issue The first article, by Rebecca Pearl-Martinez, sets the scene, identifying six global trends that could catalyse the closing of energy access gaps around the world and showing how these trends relate to gender inequality

Summary

Introduction

ENERGIA is the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, founded in 1996, with the goal of providing energy sector stakeholders with evidence and advocacy to improve the gender equality of their projects, programmes, and policies. Providing universal access to modern energy can bring opportunities for all An overview of the literature on the gender and energy nexus shows that the initial aim was to make the case for a gender-differentiated approach to energy provision.

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