Second Attitudes of Decision Makers Toward Womens Privacy

2 Second Attitudes of Decision Makers Toward Women s Privacy 

Observations and interviews with inhabitants of the dwellings showed that most of them care much about women s privacy inside the semiprivate spaces. Inhabitants of the courtyards (Fig. 9.7) explained that they cover and divide their coirrtyards for privacy reasorts, in addition to other reasons such as secirrity and climatic ones, or the need for additional space. 

Inhabitants of the birilding blocks (Fig. 9.8) explained that they divided the entrance to guarantee their women s protection while they stop or clean the entrance, in addition to avoiding conflicts with their neighbors. 

To guarantee women s privacy while using the entrances of the houses (Fig. 9.9), some of the inhabitants encroach onto the sidewalks by constructing thresholds 

Hi sukwiilk li A at of the gate Is lower than the rest of the sidewalk. 

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