Following the theoretical work by Agarwal (2001) six categories
of variables are hypothesized to affect women’s participation in
forest institutions: 1-rules that exclude entry of women into the
participatory process; 2-social norms such as segregation, division
of labor or gendered biases; 3-social preferences that give more
weight to men’s participation than women’s; 4-entrenched claims
by men who are hesitant to give power to women; 5-few personal
endowments of property or social networks that would allow