{"id":24386,"date":"2021-05-07T09:59:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T08:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/?p=24386"},"modified":"2021-05-10T14:29:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:29:27","slug":"wind-energy-a-gender-perspective-irena-report-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wind-energy-a-gender-perspective-irena-report-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind energy: A gender perspective  IRENA report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p_Infos\">Author : The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), 2020<\/p>\n<p class=\"p_Telechargement\">To download\u00a0: <a title=\"irena_wind_gender_2020.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/base.socioeco.org\/docs\/irena_wind_gender_2020.pdf\"><span class=\"s_PDF\">PDF<\/span><\/a> <small>(6.7 MiB)<\/small><\/p>\n<div class=\"d_Resume\">\n<h4>Summary\u00a0:<\/h4>\n<div>\n<p>Wind energy, like other parts of the global energy industry, remains largely male-dominated. Yet opportunities exist to improve the gender balance, make greater use of women\u2019s skills, and entrench wind power as part of an inclusive and sustainable energy system for the future.<\/p>\n<p>This brief tracks the presence of women across the wind energy value chain. Based on a survey of more than a thousand individuals and organisations, it examines female representation, gender-inclusive policies, and perceptions of gender bias in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) conducted the survey jointly with the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and the Global Women\u2019s Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET).<\/p>\n<p>Among other findings:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"fbe-depth-1\">\n<li>Women represent only 21% of the wind energy workforce (based on survey responses), compared to 32% in renewables overall and 22% in traditional energy industries like oil and gas.<\/li>\n<li>Perceptions of gender roles and cultural-social norms form a major barrier to gender equality.<\/li>\n<li>Perceived wage inequalities are lower in wind energy (40%) than in the overall economy (68%).<\/li>\n<li>Women are generally perceived to possess valuable skills and knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>Europe and North America show the highest share of women in wind energy jobs, at 26%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"d_Sources\">\n<h4>Sources :<\/h4>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irena.org\/publications\/2020\/Jan\/Wind-energy-A-gender-perspective\">www.irena.org\/publications\/2020\/Jan\/Wind-energy-A-gender-perspective<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author : The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), 2020 To download\u00a0: PDF (6.7 MiB) Summary\u00a0: Wind energy, like other parts of the global energy industry, remains largely male-dominated. Yet opportunities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}