Understanding Household Energy Decision-Making and Vulnerability: Intersectional Perspectives from Austria
This webinar presents selected findings from an Austrian household survey conducted under the EmPOWERing All Task of the Users TCP. The survey examines energy consumption patterns, sustainability awareness, energy literacy, and intra-household energy practices and decision-making processes through an intersectional lens, specially reflecting on the gender norms, household dynamics, and care responsibilities.
EmPOWERing All in the energy transition: Outcomes and lessons learned from the Users TCP task on Gender and Energy
Abstract: The next webinar in our series presented the outcomes of Phase 1 of the Users TCP Task ‘EmPOWERing All: Gender in policy and implementation for achieving transitions to sustainable energy’ . This task has gathered researchers from the fields of gender and energy in a global network to analyse energy policy and technologies with […]
How can energy standards help to promote Gender Equality and Social Inclusion?
Abstract: IEEE standards association has launched the “Dignity, Inclusion, Identity, Trust, and Agency” (DIITA) Industry Connections Program to consider causes of exclusion which can be addressed by advancing technology for humanity through standardization and related solutions. Within the program, the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Workstream identify barriers to gender equality and social inclusion […]
Including gender: policy choices towards a just energy transition
Abstract: Aiming at a just energy transition, governments strive to implement an energy transition policy that ‘leaves no one behind’. Resonating the justice discourse, the costs and benefits of the energy transition need to be equally distributed in society taking into consideration the existing inequalities and injustices. In this webinar the gender just energy policy […]