Overview
- Integrates issues of gender inequality and energy studies
- Explores how gender inequality can hinder sustainable energy movements
- Contains contributions from Europe, Africa, Latin America, and South Asia
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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.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Women and Gender Inequality in Energy Policy
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Women and Gender Inequality in Energy Transition
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Women and Gender Inequality in Energy Communities
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Women at the Intersection of Gender and Energy Equality
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women and the Energy Sector
Book Subtitle: Gender Inequality and Sustainability in Production and Consumption
Editors: Natalia Rocha Lawton, Cynthia Forson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43091-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) under exclusive license to Springer Nature 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-43090-9Published: 31 January 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-43093-0Due: 13 February 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-43091-6Published: 30 January 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 348
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Corporate Environmental Management, Industries, Sustainable Development, Renewable and Green Energy, Gender Studies