What is the ‘Problem’ of Gender Inequality Represented to be in the Swedish Forest Sector?
Publisher: Environmental Science & Policy
Author(s): Alizée Ville, Grace Wong, Amanda Jiménez Aceituno, Andrea Downing, Mawa Karambiri, and Maria Brockhaus
Date: 2023
Topics: Gender, Renewable Resources
Countries: Sweden
Gender equality in natural resource management is a matter of sustainability and democracy for Sweden’s government, however the country’s forest remains a highly gender-segregated sector. We examine how gender inequality is problematized within Swedish forest and rural policy documents using the What’s the problem represented to be? (WPR) approach.