Talk:Energy poverty and gender

Removed section on "The feminization of energy poverty"

I've removed the following section for now as it reads like an essay and much of it duplicates facts or arguments that are given elsewhere. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 05:17, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Feminist research and advocacy critiqued the “gender blindness” of poverty-eradication policies, highlighting the gender dimension in poverty. Those researches addressed the problem of the interaction between poverty and discrimination again female, which refers to the gender inequalities in economic system, household hardens, health, education, and participation in the public affairs. A significant gendered bias is the distribution of labor. Women are confined to the domestic work, like in the kitchen, insides the house, while men can work “outside of the house”. The gendered distribution of labor gives men the privileges to access the new technologies, higher income employment opportunities, and more power in making decision regarding energy use at home. Other research also investigates the “time poverty” that caused by the gendered distribution of household work, and it indicates that the women under the patriarchy dominance are responsible for more housework than males, hence have little time for participate in economic activities.

Liberal feminist scholar investigated the gender dimension in energy poverty in terms of domestic economics, time and labor discourses, and health impacts. According to the liberal feminists, enabling women to access to technologies and education is solution for gendered energy poverty.

However, other scholars pointed out that technology itself is not enough to tackle the gendered energy poverty, with the evidences of some failed programs with technological approaches. Instead, they suggested the including women in decision-making process in energy development programs, which is in line with the post-modern epistemologies that advocate for situated knowledge from local participatory and reflexivity.

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Removed section on "Mainstreaming gender in energy policies and projects"

I removed this section as it seems to be a lot of detail about one methodology, and I also find it very hard to understand. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 05:29, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

According to the Gender Mainstreaming, the gender dimension can be integrated in all phases of energy policy-making process. These phases include define, plan, act and check, together forming a whole policy cycle.

In the define phase, the gender data is suggested to be collected and evaluated. Those data could be found at different source like the European Union labor force survey (EU-LFS), The European Union living conditions survey (EU-SILC), and The International Energy Agency (IEA) World Energy Out¬look, etc. with the gender data, gender analysis, gender impact assessment and gender stakeholders consultation can be conducted.

In the plan phase, gender budgets are suggested to be calculated with a gender perspective. It brings the insight of public spending on different gender, which will benefit the transparency of public spend. The gender indicators should represent the key gender dimensions, for example the time cost of women in collecting fuels and the health cost of air pollution caused by cooking.

In the implementation phase, the training that aims for raising gender awareness, improving capabilities are necessary. Gender-sensitive institutional transformation requires policymakers, staff’s certain abilities to deliver.

In the check phase, it refers not only to the evaluation at the end of the process, but also monitoring during the whole process. Gender sensitive evaluation at the end of process provides an opportunity of reflection, while the ongoing monitoring enables the early discovery of potential problems in the energy program.

Removed section on "Climate change finance"

I removed the following section as it has some Neutral point of view issues. The second and third paragraphs consist mostly of opinions, which need to be explicitly attributed as someone's opinion, rather than stated as if they were facts. The first paragraph implies that it's unprofitable to provide renewable energy to rural areas, but as far as I know, rural areas are the areas that are best suited for renewable energy.

Existing energy development in developing countries are characterized by commercialization and privatization, which leads to the increasing investment on commercial energy like electricity, gas and petroleum. Renewable energy also attracts overwhelming attention due to the ongoing climate change. However, the separated distribution of rural inhabitation makes it unprofitable for private energy companies to provide electricity service to those rural areas.

In face of climate change, tackling energy poverty requires the policymakers to recognize the needs of marginalized people, especially the women in rural areas who suffer the most from the climate change impacts and energy poverty. Study indicates that the environmental collective actions that exclude gender dimension might deteriorate gender inequality and poverty. One example can be found in the joint forest management (JFM) in India, which has very limited female participation in decision making, monitoring and benefits. Marginalized women turned to spend more time to collection biomass because their needs are not addressed by the environmental actions.

Hence, gender perspective needs to be included in the climate change financing schemes, when supporting the local communities to get access to modern energy service in climate projects. It means considering the climate project impacts on marginalized women's access to energy service when designing the climate adaptation and mitigation projects. Carbon financing is suggested to address equal benefits to the different genders and support equal access and control over energy.

Energy Poverty Article

This article definitely raises important questions about the disproportionate effect of energy poverty on women. I am currently working on editing the article "Energy Poverty" and am still learning more about it as an intersectional issue. Feel free to look at my proposed edits on my user page and let me know if you have any more suggestions! --Jme312 (talk) 03:45, 4 October 2023 (UTC)jme

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Wiki Education assignment: Geographies of Energy and Sustainability

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 4 January 2024 and 15 March 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): UWgeographyEnjoyer (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Juniper37 (talk) 17:36, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Planned Edits

Hello,

In the next couple weeks, I will be revising and editing this article for an energy and sustainability course project. I would appreciate any feedback on my proposed edits, which I will be working on in my user sandbox. So far, my planned changes to the article include:

• • flesh out the time poverty section more and how it affects men and women differently-
  • Add non-example section on energy poverty in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Elaborate on energy poverty and education content (not the example)
  • assess uncited claims made in "Energy Poverty and Education > In developed countries" section. (women living alone due to higher life expectancy?)

Thanks!

- UWGeographyEnjoyer UWgeographyEnjoyer (talk) 20:19, 14 March 2024 (UTC)