STATE OF WOMEN IN CITIES 2012-2013 - UN-Habitat

GENDER AND THE PROSPERITY OF CITIES
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Key Messages
Policy Recommendations and Actions
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Part One 2
Chapter 1.1 Conceptualising Gender and the Prosperity of Cities 5
What are Prosperous Cities? 5
The Gendered Nature of Urban Poverty and Prosperity 7
Urban Prosperity, Gender and Empowerment Nexus 7
Relationships between women empowerment, prosperity and urbanisation 14
Chapter 1.2 Regional Variations in Urbanisation, Gender Equality
and The ‘Prosperity Of Cities’ 18
The African Region 18
The Asian Region 19
Latin America and the Caribbean Region 19
Challenges of collecting and using sex-disaggregated data on cities 21
Part Two 24
Chapter 2.1 Gender, Quality Of Life And Prosperity Of Cities 26
Attitudes towards women’s quality of life in cities 26
Women, gender and housing 27
Women, gender and health 29
Violence against women and gender-based violence in cities 32
Chapter 2.2 Gender, Infrastructure and Prosperity of Cities 37
Attitudes towards women’s access to infrastructure in cities 37
Gender and Basic Services 40
Gender and public transport 42
Gender and community spaces in cities 43
Chapter 2.3 Gender, Productivity, Employment and Prosperity of Cities 45
Attitudes towards women’s productivity in cities 45
Education, vocational training and human capital are key for urban productivity 47
Gender, employment and productivity in cities 49
Capturing and enhancing women’s productivity and economic empowerment in cities 56
Chapter 2.4 Gender, Equity-Based Development and Prosperity 59
Attitudes towards gender equity in cities 59
Gender and formal urban politics 60
Gender and informal urban politics 62
Part Three 66
Chapter 3.1 Gender Policies, Institutions and Prosperity of Cities 68
Gender-sensitive and gender-equitable prosperous cities 68
Perceptions of gender policies and institutions in cities 69
Gender-sensitive and gender-equitable urban policies 72
BIBLIOGRAPhy 79
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