Gender

Wood Energy Data

Workload - Responsibilities

Data on gender and wood energy are limited to some project studies, and no general data formats exist (yet). The data given below are available from project studies.

Workload of Women and Men

Activity		Number of Hours Spent per Day
		Indonesia	Burkina Faso	India	Nepal
Firewood collection	Women	0.09	0.10	0.65	2.37*
	Men	0.21	0.03	0.65	0.83*
Water Hauling	Women	0	0.63	1.23	0.67
	Men	0	0	0.04	0.07
Food processing	Women	2.72	2.02	1.42	0.70
	Men	0.10	0.17	0.27	0.20
Cooking	Women	-*	2.35	3.65	2.10
	Men	-*	0.01	0.03	0.38
Total	Women	11.02	9.08	9.07	11.88
	Men	8.07	7.05	5.07	6.53
Source: Dev Nathan, "Economic Factors in the Adoption of Improved Stoves", paper in WEN 12.1, 1997

^* Notes: For Nepal, firewood collection includes grass and leaf fodder collection. For Indonesia, cooking is included in food processing.

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Responsibilities of Women and Men in Bedugul Village, Indonesia

Men	Women
Tending Animals	Cooking (twice a day, two hours a time)
Preparing Fields for planting ploughing	Washing clothes
Buying seeds	Drawing water from the well
Building fences	Care of children
Fertilizing fields	Gathering fuel
Planting	Shopping
Harvesting rice	Planting
Constructing/maintaining the house	Weeding
Processing of crops after harvest	Harvesting rice and dry crops
	Processing of crops after harvest
Source: Christina Aristanti, "A Stove Project with a Gender and Health Orientation: Bedugul, Indonesia", paper in WEN 12.1, 1997

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