A Methodological Framework for the Geospatial Assessment of Women Employment and Business Opportunities in the Renewable Energy Sector – Methodology Report (2023)

Current approaches to assessing women’s employment opportunities fail to recognize that geography and place play an essential role in enabling women to work outside the home. How will this affect employment opportunities for women in the renewable energy (RE) sector? A woman’s ability to access formal employment opportunities or become an entrepreneur depends on a wide range of factors, with many existing studies focused on individual factors such as level of education, or contextual factors such as legislative policy and workplace gender discrimination. However, factors that vary geographically, such as access to training and learning opportunities, safety, transport, access to electricity, access to water, broadband availability, and exposure to natural disasters, are often not considered in analyses and are potentially of equal or greater importance in determining women’s access to jobs. This report aims to bridge the gap between geospatial data and women's employment opportunities by presenting a methodological approach to estimating women’s access to formal employment and business opportunities in the RE sector in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) from a geospatial perspective.