The women are illiterate and live in traditional, patriarchal societies, but are given the opportunity to become solar engineers and lead the electrification of their home villages.
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden are now examining the ground-breaking initiative in Zanzibar, focusing on the social and unequal conditions of the energy transition – and on how power structures can be overturned.
The research is part of of the Gender & Energy Task and described in a news item at the University’s website.
Read the news item:
The women who tear down power structures with solar energy | Chalmers.
