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Woman-headed households suffer disproportionately from inadequate housing |
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This extract from the State of the World’s Cities 2008/2009 report, sheds light on the prevalence of woman-headed households in urban households, which lack more than one “shelter deprivation.” These can relate to a lack of durable housing, overcrowding, problems accessing safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation services, or insecurity of tenure. Approximately 20 per cent of the households in the 160 sample cities in UN-HABITAT’s Urban Indicators database are headed by women.
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Women's safety audits for a safer urban design: Results of the pilot audit (25 August 2007) |
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Feelings of insecurity and fear of crime and violence are highest in large cities. Urban design and planning do not create violence or other forms of assault, but they do create an environment that offers greater or lesser opportunities for violence. Making public spaces physically safer is one way to reduce the opportunities for assaults and the fear of crime.
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Expert Group Meeting On Gender-Friendly Sustainable Cities in Asia and the Pacific: Rebuilding Communities Affected by Disaster and Conflict |
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Gender mainstreaming is a crucial aspect of good urban governance, as we work together towards making the international community peaceful, equitable and stable. It is quite certain that gender mainstreaming has been substantially improved, compared to 30 years ago, though it has not yet advanced to the point of creating balanced societies.
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Violence Against Women in Urban Areas |
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Although women’s contribution in today’s societies is essential and indisputable, nowhere is their status on a par with men’s. Women are a vulnerable group in all areas. With respect to violence, the evidence is revealing and irrevocable: not only are women particularly affected by many forms of violence, but most often these happen inside what should be the most secure of environments; their own homes. As the United Nations Development Programme’s annual Human Development Report (1995) commented: “In no society are women secure or treated as equal to men. Personal insecurity shadows them from cradle to grave… From childhood through adulthood, they are abused because of their gender”.
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Woman-headed households suffer disproportionately from inadequate housing