ABSTRACT
This chapter explores why, despite international legislation, gender mainstreaming has failed to be integrated into climate change related decision-making, and also outlines critiques of gender mainstreaming. It then discusses the UK evidence from three research projects undertaken by the authors over the course of twelve years. The earliest research project investigated how municipal waste management was gendered in three EU member states. It was funded in 2002 by the European Commission as a pilot project in gender mainstreaming. The second research project, started in 2006, was undertaken in Turkey and the UK for the award of a PhD and investigated how environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) are gendered. The third piece of research was undertaken in connection with a European Union COST Action on Gender and Science, Technology and Environment, and comprised interviews with managers and women's network coordinators in three UK government departments/quangos with a climate change remit. The chapter scrutinizes a selection of equality impact assessments of energy policies.
