Study asks if green energy plans help women in Ghana, South Africa
Development economists have written about a new working paper that studied 14 green-energy policies, six in Ghana and eight in South Africa. They say some policies address gender inequality, while others barely mention it.
The authors also interviewed nine officials, advisers, researchers and civil society specialists. They say both countries lack reliable data, funding and skilled staff, and that women often hold lower-paid, non-technical jobs. They propose a Gender-Transformative Industrial Policy framework that asks what blocks women, what is overlooked, who shapes the rules and whether policies work together. The working paper is not peer-reviewed, and the authors describe their own findings.