This publication focuses on gender and urban change. The report is a perspective of environment and urbanization through the parameters of gender. It also looks at cities where women’s leadership and support groups operate. Climate change and cities is another area the report discusses, at length, in this volume. The content includes:
(1) Cities through a “Gender Lens”: a Golden “Urban Age” for Women in the Global South? By Chant, S.
(2) Urbanisation and Gender- Based Violence: Exploring the Paradoxes in the Global South. By Mcllwaine, C.
(3) Female Employment in Dhaka, Bangladesh: Participation, Perceptions and Presures. By Banks, N.
(4) Gender, difference and Urban Change: Implications for the Promotion of Well-Being? By Walker, J. et al.