Seminars & Lectures

‘Renewable Inequity?’ Lecture at AUB

Tuesday, Apr 5, 2016
11:00am -> 12:30pm
American University of Beirut (AUB)

The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs cordially invites you to a Lecture and Open Discussion
Renewable Inequity? A Global Perspective on Women’s Employment in Clean Energy
by Dr. Bipasha Baruah: Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research at Western University, Canada

This lecture is based on a paper that examines research and data on women’s employment in the renewable energy sector in OECD countries, emerging economies and developing countries. It highlights similarities and differences in occupational patterns in women’s employment in renewables in different regional contexts and makes recommendations for optimizing women’s participation in the sector. Findings from this research reveal the need for wider socially progressive policies as well as shifts in societal attitudes about gender roles in order for women to benefit optimally from employment in the renewable energy sector.

Dr. Bipasha Baruah is the Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues, and associate professor of women’s studies and feminist research at Western University, Canada. Dr. Baruah conducts innovative interdisciplinary research on gender, development and globalization; women and work; and social, political and economic inequality. Her research on women and property ownership and women’s employment in renewable energy and resource efficiency has influenced policy within governments, financial institutions and non-governmental organizations. Dr. Baruah earned a PhD in Environmental Studies from York University, Toronto in 2005. She has over ten years of professional international development experience in Canada, US, India, Indonesia and the Eastern Caribbean.

Location: Issam Fares Institute – Conference room