{"id":1821,"date":"2023-10-01T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2023-10-01T07:00:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T07:00:26","slug":"women-empowerment-stressed-for-energy-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/01\/women-empowerment-stressed-for-energy-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Women empowerment stressed for energy sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-1822 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1822 avia_image' src=\"https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Women-empowerment-stressed-for-energy-sovereignty.jpg\" alt='' title='Women empowerment stressed for energy sovereignty' height=\"452\" width=\"790\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Women-empowerment-stressed-for-energy-sovereignty.jpg 790w, https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Women-empowerment-stressed-for-energy-sovereignty-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Women-empowerment-stressed-for-energy-sovereignty-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Women-empowerment-stressed-for-energy-sovereignty-705x403.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_image  avia-builder-el-last  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Speakers at a meeting on Thursday called for the empowerment of women in energy transition to ensure energy sovereignty at family and community levels.<\/p>\n<p>Women are struggling as fossil fuel has expanded and are now in the front line in fighting the global energy crisis but their contributions have remained unrecognised, they said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We have to stay together. We have to raise our voice,\u2019 said Zakia K Hassan, executive director, DIPTO, a non-government organisation.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases, women face serious implications of the fossil fuel power plants as they do not migrate like their male counterparts, said the policy brief presented at the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Women also face difficulties in mobility, personal health and hygiene and mandatory requirements due to the crowd of outsiders in the locality where a fossil fuel project is implemented, said the policy brief.<\/p>\n<p>In programmes such as the Environmental Social Management Plan and the Corporate Social Responsibility the allocation for women was less than 1 per cent and the fund was spent on tailoring, goat rearing and poultry training programmes, ignoring women\u2019s special needs such as reproductive health.<\/p>\n<p>The representation status of women in energy sector is understood with some data \u2013 women are often consulted in the formulation of Environmental Impact Assessment but still only 7.3 per cent respondents in EIAs were women, the policy brief said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the policy brief, only 8.3 per cent of employees in fossil fuel companies are women, while in the decision-making stage women account for only 0.93 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Women are the immediate innocent victims of emissions from fossil fuel plants,\u2019 said Hasan Mehedi, member secretary, Bangladesh Working Group on External Debt, who presented the policy brief.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Even then women are not entitled to compensation,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>The speakers also pointed out the suffering women undergo in cities because of the energy crisis resulting in reduced piped gas supply.<\/p>\n<p>Over half of Bangladesh\u2019s population is women.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-women-empowerment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diptofoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}