Sutainable Technologies and Gender. Approach to Cases in Chiloé Archipielago, Chile

Abstract

This article approaches the experience of women relate to sustainable technologies based on the use of energy and its domestic, productive, and communitarian applications in communes of the Province of Chiloé, Chile. The irruptive emerge in March 2020 of the pandemic caused by Covid 19 follows the entire process of this study, impacting the research practice, which included virtual ethnography to the classic qualitative strategies. Our main focus has been the dialogue of knowledge, combining the theoretical reflections of the CTS field (Science, Technology and Society) with an ecofeminist perspective. One of the main findings is that in order to promote successful processes, differences in relation to social gender roles must be considered and analyzed in the case of alternative energies. In addition, some keys are described to identify the main gender equity gaps in access, use, and appropriation of knowledge related to sustainable technologies.