Choragudi, S (2024) Do all the empowered women promote smokeless kitchens? Investigating rural India. In: Journal of Cleaner Production, 447 .
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Abstract
Cooking with solid fuels is still prevalent in rural India. Decades long clean cooking policies paid little attention to its primary users, women. Using a binomial logit model we prove that household's use of clean cooking fuel is associated with woman's financial independence, her bargaining power and improved opportunity cost of her time. More importantly, the study adds to the existing literature by highlighting the significance of favorable socio-cultural circumstances for women empowerment to realize into smokeless kitchens. Woman's awareness of ill effects of burning solid fuels; gender relations; and woman's access to market, influence the degree to which women empowerment manifests into adopting clean cooking fuel. By using two rounds of National Family Health Surveys conducted in 2015�16 and 2019�21, the study is first of its kind to examine the pre and post scenarios of one of India's largest clean cooking fuel scheme- Pradhan Mantry Ujwal Yojna. The analysis shows that woman's agency and less/more favorable contexts in which it is exercised, continues to be the key to households adopting clean cooking fuel in rural India even though the policy intervention eased the economic burden of owning the necessary cooking technologies. © 2024 Elsevier Ltd
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Journal of Cleaner Production |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to the Author. |
| Keywords: | Rural areas; Smoke, Cooking fuels; Gender and cooking fuel; India; Logit models; Pradhan mantry ujwal yojna; Primary Users; Rural India; Solid fuel and LPG; Solid fuels; Women empowerment, Liquefied petroleum gas |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Divecha Centre for Climate Change |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2024 10:09 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Apr 2024 10:09 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/84620 |
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