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  • Energy policies tend to rely on stakeholders' rational decision-making, but in reality our practices, transport choices and consumption patterns are influenced by socio-cultural factors, and gender roles. Women still do a disproportionate share of household work: in the UK, men averaged 16h a week helping out at home compared with 26h per week by women and up to 60h if on maternity leave. This makes women, especially after they become mothers, key absorbers of energy policy. If energy infrastructure is considered gender neutral, it is ignored how gender is a key factor in wealth and income (and time) distribution. Women have a lower average income than men and are less likely to own their property. This puts women and men mostly in very different economic positions. Becoming a mother and separating from your partner exposes women to poverty: women and their children in single parent households are disproportionately affected by the consequences of fuel poverty, in all European countries. In 2017 14% of UK single parent households were in fuel poverty, twice the risk faced by couples with children, and nearly a third of single parent households reported poor condition in their homes (leaks, mold, etc.,). Further, fuel poverty seems to persist across generations: research shows that children born to basic educated mothers in Finland are four times as likely to be born to a single mother and more likely to experience parental separation, thereby accumulating disadvantages. This chapter argues that energy inequality, as documented in previous chapters, can put a double burden on women in terms of a higher risk of energy poverty especially among single parents and the feminization of pro environmental behavior at the expense of women's time. (xsd:string)
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