What has the bridge or the road to do with gender equality and what kind of rural infrastructure development is key for women farmers?
Rural infrastructure covers a wide range of physical infrastructure and derived infrastructure services, including energy, transport, information and communications technologies, irrigation, sanitation and hygiene services, potable water, market infrastructure, and social and administrative infrastructure. Each of these entails many different services, modes of delivery, variations in coverage, and range of users as well as technical parameters for construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance. Various studies have increasingly documented four major differences between men and women with respect to rural infrastructure: (1) differences of needs for the type and location of physical infrastructure, (2) differences in priorities for infrastructure services, (3) unequal opportunities to participate in decision making on the choice of infrastructure services, both within the households and within communities, or to participate in the implementation of the infrastructure programs and the de
