Clean, Renewable Energy: Improving Womens´ Lives in South Asia

As feminist scholars have long argued, there are no purely technological solutions to achieving progress on gender equity and women´s empowerment. Nevertheless, in rural South Asia, where many women´s lives are marked by gender inequalities, access to clean and renewable energy technology and services can make a difference if those resources are also targeted at improving women´s access and welfare. This, however, compels us to go “beyond the meter.” Special social and technical interventions that simultaneously target energy access and gender equity are necessary.