Adopting a gender a perspective to renewable energy development is critically important to ensure that women’s contributions – their skills and views – represent an integral part of the growing industry. Studies suggest that women bring new perspectives to the workplace and improve collaboration, while increasing the number of qualified women in an organisation’s leadership yields […]

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) have joined forces to produce this guide on Gender Equality in the Sustainable Energy Transition, which provides an overview of key and emerging issues in the gender and energy nexus, illustrated by research […]

This Women’s Employment in Energy Sector Utilities Toolkit is A “one-stop shop” for advice and resources on how to bolster women’s employment in energy utilities. It contains links to free, publicly available tools and resources aimed at addressing the barriers identified in the Stepping Up Women’s STEM Careers reports. The toolkit contains four modules, each thematically focused. The […]

This handbook on mainstreaming gender in energy projects seeks to provide guidance, practical tools and examples for energy projects that show how to undertake gender mainstreaming systematically. The handbook is a product of an ENERGIA initiative on Gender in Energy Projects and is based on ENERGIA’s work on gender mainstreaming since the 1990s, including gender […]