Abstract
Women and energy conservation strategies purport earning, borrowing or the skills for energy conservation. The datasets for household energy management do not identify the grant of economic decision making to women delegate households by the earning men households as an entry point to initiate and encourage the healthy mindsets for energy conservation. The objective of this study is to explore the link between economic decision making and the women economic empowerment for energy conservation and to assess the energy conservation trends among the economically empowered women. Delphi focused proved 70% correlation between energy women economic empowerment based on economic decision making and energy conservation. The energy conservation trends found positive 80.20% and negative 19.80% in economically empowered women, positive 55.80% and negative 44.20% in not economically empowered women. The study suggests that the economic decision making is a significant tool for women economic empowerment; and women economic empowerment does not depend only on the facts that women earn, have micro finance loans or skills to manage or produce energy. The study is a contribution to organize civil society to conserve energy for sustainable societies and cities.
Musarrat Jabeen, Saima Bibi, Awais Ali Shah. (2016) Exploring The Link Between Women Economic Empowerment And Energy Conservation, Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 13, Issue 1.
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