Gender, Asset Accumulation and Just Cities Pathways to transformation [Paperback]

With more than half the worlds population now living in urban areas, urbanisation is undoubtedly one of the most important phenomena of the 21st century. However, despite increasing recognition of the critical relationship between economic and social development in cities, gender issues are often overlooked in understanding the complexities of current urbanisation processes. This book seeks to rectify this neglect.

Gender, Asset Accumulation and Just Citiesexplores the contribution that a focus on the gendered nature of asset accumulation brings to the goal of achieving just, more equitable cities. To date neither the academic debates nor the formulated policy and practice on just cities has included a focus on gender-based inequalities, discriminations, or opportunities. From a gender perspective, a separate discourse exists, closely associated with gender justice, particularly in relation to urban rights and democracy. Neither, however, has addressed the implications for womens accumulation of assets and associated empowerment for transformational pathways to just cities.

In this book, contributors specifically focus on gender and just cities from a wide range of gendered perspectives that include households, housing, land, gender-based violence, transport, climate, and disasters.

1. Introduction: towards a nexus linking gender, assets and transformational pathways to just cities Sylvia Chant2. Female household headship as an asset? Interrogating the intersections of urbanisation, gender and domestic transformations Caroline Moser3. Longitudinal and intergenerational perspectives on gendered asset accumulation in Indio Guayas, Guayaquil, Ecuador Sally Rover4. Key drivers of asset erosion and accumulation in informal employment: findings from the Informal Economy Monitoring Study Carole Rakodi5. Addressing gendered inequalities in access to land anl³