consequently the fora in which energy issues are identified and potential solutions proposed are likely to have an inadvertent male bias unido and un women in addition to the leadership gap the share of women in the workforce in the energy sector is generally quite low reflecting gendered social norms women and children perform a large share of the unpaid work required to collect biomass fuels with differences according to regions and types of fuel depending on region season and availability average biomass collection time in africa is estimated at four to ten hours per week world lp gas association matinga