The predicament of women

This book chapter from International Energy and Poverty explores two assumptions that underlie assertions about energy and poverty: firstly, that the poor form a homogeneous group; and secondly, that the poor will benefit equally from energy interventions. Work on poverty has increasingly recognized that the poor are not homogeneous. Indeed, the poor have multiple identities differentiated in terms of a number of social characteristics including gender. The poor vary not only in terms of the extent of their poverty but also their reasons for being poor. The processes through which people become poor have a distinct gender dimension (Narayan 1999).

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