The importance of women participation in ensuring justice in energy transition in ASEAN and G7.

Sumarno, Theresia; Fitriyanti, Vivi; Khusna, Vivid; Yusgiantoro, Inka

Abstract

Many countries have increased their climate ambitions, including net-zero by 2060. Gender equality is essential for just energy transition (JET). United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 5 and 7 promote both gender equality and access to sustainable energy for all. Women's participation in JET is crucial, yet they are underrepresented in the energy industry. This paper aims to analyse the aspect of justice in the energy transition from the perspectives of women in ASEAN and G7 countries, attempting to answer the question of how far women in ASEAN have participated in the energy transition (from leadership roles to end-users) compared to women in G7 economies. We use case studies (with cross-analysis of ASEAN and G7 countries) to explore women's experiences as both workers in the energy sector and as energy consumers. Most of the literature on women's issues in the energy sector is related to energy poverty and energy access, so this paper will contribute to the literature by examining women as workers and consumers. The study involved content analysis with intensive literature reviews. We also adopted the three tenets of justice by Jenkins et al. (2016) and analysed the collected data using this framework. This paper finds that despite having more women in leadership roles in the renewable energy sector, G7 is almost at the same level as ASEAN in terms of the effort to improving women's participation with the aim of accelerating and ensuring a just energy transition.

Citation

SUMARNO, T., FITRIYANTI, V., KHUSNA, V. and YUSGIANTORO, I. 2023. The importance of women participation in ensuring justice in energy transition in ASEAN and G7. In Moffett, S. (ed.) Proceedings of the 6th International conference on gender research (ICGR 2023), 20-21 April 2023, Ulster, UK. International conference on gender research: conference proceedings, 6(1). Reading: Academic Conferences International [online], pages 232-240. Available from: https://doi.org/10.34190/icgr.6.1.1040

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 6th International conference on gender research (ICGR 2023)
• Start Date: Apr 20, 2023
• End Date: Apr 21, 2023
• Acceptance Date: Jan 26, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Apr 5, 2023
• Publication Date: Apr 5, 2023
• Deposit Date: Apr 13, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 13, 2023
• Publisher: Academic Conferences and Publishing International
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 232-240
• Series Title: International conference on gender research: conference proceedings
• Series Number: 6(1)
• Series ISSN: 2516-2810; 2516-2802
• ISBN: 9781914587634
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.34190/icgr.6.1.1040
• Keywords: Women; Gender equality; Energy transition; Equitable climate policies; Distributional justice; Procedural justice
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1931899