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Energy poverty and gender - "We need our eyes wide open"

So many of the ways in which women and girls around the world must live their lives are simply taken for granted, never given a second thought. We all know that domestic tasks fall disproportionately on women. That is as …

Women and clean energy in Bangladesh

A woman collects firewood from the forest. Picture: G.M.B.Akash/Panos

Though it may not seem obvious, access to clean energy and women’s empowerment especially in the developing world are intrinsically linked. Collecting firewood, for example, can make a woman or girl vulnerable to attack while she’s outside her village searching. …