Women Working In The Rooftop Solar Sector A Look At Indias Transition To Clean Energy Yoko Nobuoka Sasmita Patnaik Shaily Jha Neeraj Kuldeep Michael Waldron by Yoko Nobuoka; Sasmita Patnaik; Shaily Jha; Neeraj Kuldeep; Michael Waldron 9789264365339, 9264365338 instant download after payment.

India’s rooftop solar targets represent a major opportunity for sustainable development and for
women’s employment. While India has shown a strong commitment towards a clean energy
transition through its renewable electricity installation target for 2022, deployment of rooftop
solar technology has been slow. With the potential to create a large number of jobs in general,
the rooftop solar sector also generates the types of jobs attractive to highly skilled women in
particular, a largely untapped pool in India.

Our analysis, based on a survey of rooftop solar companies as well as qualitative interviews with
women currently employed in the sector, seeks to identify opportunities for better gender
balance at work, as well as barriers to achieving it. Women currently account for only 11% of the
workforce in the companies we surveyed. Participation of women is particularly low in roles
involving frequent travel and a required onsite presence at project sites.

We recommend that the government enhance policies to scale up the rooftop solar market by
addressing the general challenges facing this sector, and introduce gender-targeted policies to
enable and encourage companies to advance actions that effectively support women’s
employment in this sector.