Representation increases women's influence in climate deliberations: Evidence from community-managed forests in Malawi

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dc.creatorClayton, Amanda
dc.creatorDulani, Boniface
dc.creatorKosec, Katrina
dc.creatorRobinson, Amanda Lea
dc.date2026
dc.date2025-06-04T19:07:10Z
dc.date2025-06-04T19:07:10Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:27:42Z
dc.descriptionWomen's inclusion is now the norm in global and local initiatives to combat climate change. We examine how women's representation affects climate deliberations using the case of community-managed forests in Malawi. We run a lab-in-the-field experiment randomly varying the gender composition of six-member groups asked to deliberate on policies to combat local overharvesting. We find that any given woman has relatively more influence in group deliberations when women make up a larger share of the group, a change driven by men's assessments of women's influence. Women's presence also shifts the content of deliberations toward prospective solutions for which women have socially recognized expertise (cooking and replanting). Despite these changes, women and men do not prefer different deforestation policies, and women's presence does not meaningfully affect group decisions. Our work demonstrates how women's presence shapes climate deliberations but also calls into question claims that women's inclusion will necessarily affect climate decisions.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/174973
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/105082
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceClayton, Amanda; Dulani, Boniface; Kosec, Katrina; and Robinson, Amanda Lea. Representation increases women's influence in climate deliberations: Evidence from community-managed forests in Malawi. American Journal of Political Science. Article in press. First published online June 3, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12994
dc.subjectwomen
dc.subjectclimate
dc.subjectforest governance
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectdeforestation
dc.subjectcapacity development
dc.titleRepresentation increases women's influence in climate deliberations: Evidence from community-managed forests in Malawi
dc.typeJournal Article

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