Womens Role in Planning Practices and Fulfillment of Their Needs

5 Women s Role in Planning Practices and Fulfillment of Their Needs 

Greed (2005) has investigated the effectiveness of gender mainstreaming as a means of integrating the needs of women and men into spatial planning in the UK. 

She explains that although equalities mainstieaming is widespread within local government, much of the emphasis is upon approaches in which gender is given limited attention. Women s (and men s) needs are not explained or defined, and spatial planning fails to integrate women s actual needs into substantive, spatial poUcy considerations. 

The previous studies maintain the necessity of women s participation in decision-making to express their needs and values and raise the question Is it tme that legal instruments and urban design reflect women s needs when they are decision makers  

Research shows that women continue to face problems in using public spaces. 

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