Molinas (1998) found that women’s participation was significantly
correlated with cooperation in forest management, measured
by such factors as the number of activities engaged in by the
group, attendance at group meetings, and leader/member evaluation
of group performance. Agarwal (2009) found that the presence
of women on forest committees, the percentage of the forest
committee that were women, as well as the willingness of women
to speak up in meetings, all significantly correlate with improved
forest conditions (as measured subjectively by foresters, researchers,
and community members and by more objective measures
from satellite imagery). Agarwal’s study used data from Nepal and
India and the results were especially strong among the Nepal
subsample.