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abstract: 'Electricity provides a range of desirable services such as the electric
light and the use of mobile phones and is regarded as a conditional
factor for economic growth. Gender equality and women''s empowerment are
also promoted as a key to development on the international agenda.
However, relatively little is known about how the advent of electricity
in new contexts affects gender relations. The present analysis of
electricity''s impact on gender relations engages with the concepts of
care work and empowerment. Based on two ethnographic case studies in
rural communities in Uttar Pradesh, India, and Bamiyan, Afghanistan, we
examine how and to what extent the introduction of electricity affected
women''s care work practices and empowerment - and potentially
transformed gender relations. We also draw on our own empirical material
from other parts of India (West Bengal and Jharkhand). We find that
electricity affected everyday life in terms of providing important
resources and enhancing women''s opportunities to perform their expected
role as care workers more efficiently and in a qualitatively better way.
The women appreciated this positive effect of electricity in their
everyday lives. However, we argue that in India, electricity at the same
time reinforced structures of gender inequality such as patriarchy and
dowry practices, and we trace this tendency to the conceptualisation of
women as care workers in combination with conventional, gender `neutral''
electricity interventions. In contrast, there are signs that women''s
status increased in the Afghanistan case, which we link to the unusual
inclusion of women engineers in the electricity supply.'
affiliation: 'Standal, K (Corresponding Author), Univ Oslo, Ctr Dev \& Environm, Oslo,
Norway.
Standal, Karina; Winther, Tanja, Univ Oslo, Ctr Dev \& Environm, Oslo, Norway.'
author: Standal, Karina and Winther, Tanja
author_list:
- family: Standal
given: Karina
- family: Winther
given: Tanja
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/08039410.2015.1134642
eissn: 1891-1765
files: []
issn: 0803-9410
journal: FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
keywords: 'electricity; gender relations; empowerment; care work; India;
Afghanistan'
language: English
number: 1, SI
number-of-cited-references: '30'
orcid-numbers: Winther, Tanja/0000-0002-9527-6063
pages: 27-45
papis_id: 83ec977db6a36e542bad38b4625ff84f
ref: Standal2016empowermentenergy
researcherid-numbers: Winther, Tanja/Q-7021-2018
times-cited: '37'
title: Empowerment Through Energy? Impact of Electricity on Care Work Practices and
Gender Relations
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000376267600003
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '11'
volume: '43'
web-of-science-categories: Development Studies
year: '2016'