New York, 4 October 2022 (TDI): United Nations Development Program (UNDP) claimed that most cities are constructed by males with little to no consideration given to the needs, aspirations, or safety of women and girls. Along these lines, it has urged that it is time to create female-friendly cities.
Cities for Women
Principally, urban areas provide equal opportunity. They are accessible to everybody who wishes to give living a full, varied, prosperous, and cultural life their best effort.
Violence, poverty, disproportionate levels of unpaid caregiving, a lack of job prospects, and a lack of influence over public and private decision-making are some of the penalties that women face when residing in cities.
If left unchecked, this disdain for fifty percent of the population would continue to have growing effects on hundreds of millions of individuals.
Over 50 percent of the world’s population now resides in cities. By 2050, 68 percent of those people are expected to be alive.
43 megacities with a population of more than 10 million are projected to exist in the world by 2030, the majority of them in developing countries. If women don’t have an equal voice in how these cities are planned and run, they won’t work well.
Furthermore, each of the Sustainable Development Goals includes gender equality; yet, women and girls face significant structural and social obstacles to leading equitable, inclusive, and sustainable lifestyles.
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It can be observed that planning for cities is not gender-neutral. Even though studies on how urban systems fail to meet the demands of women have been around for a while, the field really took off a decade ago.
Since then, projects addressing various aspects of urban planning and the gender gap have been launched in innumerable places.
Adding to that, many women perceive the city differently than men do, despite the fact that change is taking place. Women fragment the use of time and space by juggling a successful job with caring for their families.
Besides this, women are more likely to use public areas during daytime hours when they are out with children, the elderly, or disabled people, or when they are visiting neighboring parks. However, those areas are primarily created with men’s requirements in mind.
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