Gender and urban change 8 Apr 2013 | 06:44 pm

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Cities through a "gender lens": a golden "urban age" for women in the global South? 8 Apr 2013 | 06:44 pm

Although urban women generally enjoy some advantages over their rural counterparts, a range of gender inequalities and injustices persist in urban areas that constrain their engagement in the labour m...

Community savings that mobilize federations, build women's leadership and support slum upgrading 8 Apr 2013 | 06:44 pm

This paper describes how in urban areas in many nations, community savings groups not only help meet the individual and collective needs of the poorest groups but also underpin the growth of citywide ...

Travel choice reframed: "deep distribution" and gender in urban transport 8 Apr 2013 | 06:44 pm

Transport is a critical system in the city, which, through providing access to essential activities, enables diverse women and men, girls and boys to "appropriate" their right to the city and to reali...

Urbanization and gender-based violence: exploring the paradoxes in the global South 8 Apr 2013 | 06:44 pm

This paper examines the nature and paradoxes of the relationship between urbanization and gender-based violence, especially violence against women. It highlights how such violence varies according to ...

Women's decision-making in rural and urban households in Nicaragua: the influence of income and ideology 8 Apr 2013 | 06:44 pm

 This paper contributes to the continuing debate on factors that influence women’s decision-making within households. Specifically, it considers the influence of income generation and gender ideology ...

Female employment in Dhaka, Bangladesh: participation, perceptions and pressures 8 Apr 2013 | 06:44 pm

As urbanization changes the face of poverty in Bangladesh, endemic insecurities within the urban environment force low-income households to deploy new strategies of labour mobilization that challenge ...