About

 History
 Steering Committee
 Staff
 Latest News
 TFD Home

Upcoming Events

Full Calendar

Priority Issues

Food, Fuel, Fiber and Forest

Exclusion & Inclusion of Women in the Forest Sector

Free, Prior, and Informed Consent

Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry

Forests and Climate

Forests and Poverty Reduction

Intensively Managed Planted Forests

Genetically Modified Trees

Forests and Biodiversity Conservation

Small Forests Owners and Sustainable Forest Practices

Illegal Logging

REDD+ Benefit Sharing

Forest Certification

Publications

Contact Information

The Forests Dialogue Secretariat
Yale University
360 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
USA

T +1 203 432 5966
F +1 203 432 3809
tfd@yale.edu

James Mayers
TFD Co-Leader

Carlos Roxo
TFD Co-Leader

Gary Dunning
Executive Director

The Forests Dialogue

Category Not Found

Exclusion & Inclusion of Women in Forest Sector Overview

Gender inequalities are increasingly viewed as a weak link in the effective design and implementation of interventions aimed at reducing negative impacts of human activities on forests and people. Nonetheless, women are often excluded from decision making and management of forests, even when they are the primary users of forests and forests products.