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It takes two to tango: why and how addressing gender is
important for waste minimisationSusan Buckingham, Gender Auditor
Why?
• Justice & human rights• To improve performance
• Better decisions with more diverse decision making bodies:• ‘Not taking advantage of the skills of highly qualified women
constitutes a waste of talent and a loss of economic growth potential. Various studies suggest that companies with a higher representation of women at the most senior levels deliver better organisational and financial performance.’ (EC, 2016)
• To meet legal obligations for gender mainstreaming• UN – 1995, Beijing Platform for Action on Women• EU Treaty of Amsterdam, 1997• From COP 17 (2011) onwards & European Council devolved to
member states & EC, to have gender balance in climate change decision making
• Horizon 2020
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Why?
• Because waste management, just like energy, water, transport, & mining ( all intense environmentally impactful activities), is male dominated in numbers and approaches• OECD finds that women make up between 12% and 28%
of employees in water supply, sewerage, waste management & remediation activities, in 5 of the European countries in Urban Waste (2017)
• At start of project: majority of pilot departments had male CEOs & professional staff, but female technical/associate professional staff; operatives overwhelmingly male
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Why?
• Because domestic waste management is gendered• Eurobarometer surveys, 2014; 2018
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Separates waste
Reduces consumption
Buys to reduce food waste
Buys to reduce packaging
Drinks tap cf bottled water
Believesreducing waste not important
F 73% 59% 85% 65% 70% 12%
M 68% 52% 81% 59% 63% 20%
How? gender was embedded through the project
• Application
• Initial gender survey
• Gender balance in stakeholders
• Gender in surveys & focus groups
• Mutual learning & webinars
• Gender impact of measures
• Changes in case study cities’ practices
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Application
Baseline Data
TrainingProjects
Evaluation
Examples of professional changes & good practices
Copenhagen• Now requires that senior
posts must not have more than 10% differencebetween male and female
Ponta Delgada• Tenders now require a
minimum number of womento be employed by contractors
Kavala• Changed communications
material to engage both men and women
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Examples of professional changes & good practices
Lisbon• Has recruited a male to
diversify an all-female team
Nicosia• Ensured that waste
disposal bins can be usedby all;
• Made a deliberate effort for better gender balance at events
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Examples of professional changes & good practices
Santander• Recommends that general
waste strategy follows UW gender mainstreaming
• Included a breast cancer awareness campaign to glass recycling
Tenerife• Made deliberate effort to
have better gender balance for conference speakers
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Influencing tourists’ gendered behaviour
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Observations
Those pilot cities whowere most gender-equal/gender sensitive also made the greatestgross CO2e reductions
Those who were least gender sensitive made the lowest gross CO2e reductions
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Observations
• Greatest achievement, those cities whichdeveloped a gender awareness, and took measuresto move towards gender equality
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