ENERGY POVERTY WITH A GENDER PERSPECTIVE IN URBAN HOUSEHOLDS IN ARGENTINA

This article shows the energy poverty in urban households and its impact on gender inequality in the use of time in Argentina. It explores the scope of the different conceptual and methodological approaches to this socio-economic problem as well as the quality of the information available in the country to measure energy poverty and its effect on women. The study analyses, particularly, the incidence of two key dimensions of energy poverty in urban households in Argentina: access to modern and reliable energy services, and availability of the economic goods that intervene in the consumption of energy, such as feeding, personal hygiene, thermal comfort, safety, and entertainment and communication. Country level analysis reveals that this issue affects more intensely the urban households that use more hours of unpaid domestic and care work, which are tasks mainly performed by women.