What a Gender Sensitive City Should Be

Sánchez de Madariaga, Inés

What a Gender Sensitive City Should Be - UrbanNext, Januray 22, 2021. - 2700 words

Essay, expanding design practices, No Density, Politics and economics, Urban Paradigms

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The main features of the social and economic organization according to which today’s cities were planned and built are the Fordist production model and the sexual division of labor. As gender studies have shown, these two characteristics are interdependent: attributing the responsibility for caring for the home and for dependents to half of the population – women – without any economic remuneration allows the other half of the population – men – to dedicate their time exclusively and entirely to economic activities in the realm of production.

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Architecture Women Social Inclusion Public Space Architecture and Gender

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