<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Tom: <br><br>Thank you. You cited a powerful example. <br><br>With or without improved cookstoves, and whether single or married, mothers or grandmothers, poor women with limited recourse to other occupations open to women (education and health, home cleaning and child care, janitorial or day labor) have turned to commercial cooking all over the world, usually in urbanized spaces. <br><br>Compared to many other activities where they have to be away from home long periods at a time, cooking is a skill they earn money from by going to rich people's homes twice a day, or by selling foods on the street or on contract delivery (home-based "take out" or tiffin contracts). <br><br>To my knowledge, these options for occupational cooking began in the mid-19th Century Europe and North America. Whether they had anything to do with the "improved stoves" for coal and wood during the latter half of the 19th Century is worth examining; Joel Darmstadter may have something to say on it. <br><br>Women also have key roles in the rest of the food delivery chain, not just cooking. <br><br>Let us remember only that stoves are not for boiling water but for cooking in a timely manner with pleasant flavors and desired temperatures. And that the cook is also responsible for selection of foods and designing meals - yes, even among the poor - and fetching and storing the ingredients just as she does with fuel. <br><br>How much detail of women's lives is stripped out in order to propagate a uni-dimensional image (or not even that, merely a statistic, like a dot) and make some linear argument from stoves to "empowerment" is worth pondering. <br><br>We may all have contributed to an intellectual abuse of poor women by standardizing the cook, the meal, the fuel, the cooking tasks, and ignoring everything else in her environment like food ingredients and water, and the social role of food at home. <br><br>Nikhil<br></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 5:55 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@outlook.com" target="_blank">crispinpigott@outlook.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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The Indonesian CSI Pilot 2011-2016 about which much has already been said had two 'sides' in terms of its administration: a financial component (an award-winning Results Based Finance model) and a social science one. The social side was managed by the SE Asia
regional head of 'Gender' Helen Rex-Carlson (I won't try to guess her exact title). The multiple reports and produced from that perspective and lend support for various options on how to study a community before making an intervention and how it impacted the
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<p class="MsoNormal">There are a few adoption or impact studies online. See the July 2017 GACC webinar on adoption. It is not clear from earlier impact evaluations if the results were fed back to the stove promoting organizations and if any adjustments were
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<p class="MsoNormal">Single mothers in Central America using improved stoves to cook food for sale to support their family should be considered empowerment. This has been going on for many years.
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