Women and the Energy Sector

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.

• 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.