Author Profile

Dr. Kate Grosser, Senior Lecturer at RMIT University Sydney, New South Wales, Australia has been engaged in gender equality research and national and international policy making and practice for many years. Her research explores how we advance gender equality in organizations and societies in particular through feminist perspectives on CSR and sustainability. For example, she was advisor on 'integrating a gender perspective' to the United Nations Special Representative on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises, and the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, co-hosting the UN Australian Consultation on Gender, Business and Human Rights (2018), and the 2021 international gender consultation to inform the UN next decade roadmap for business and human rights. Kate cofounded RMIT's Business and Human Rights Centre (BHRIGHT), leading the gender theme therein. She has published widely in leading academic journals and sits on the Distinguished Advisory Board at Gender, Work & Organization

About The Book

Gender Justice and Equity in urban settings involves creating cities that offer equal rights, opportunities, and safe environments for all genders, addressing issues like gender-blind urban planning, lack of safe public spaces, barriers to economic participation, and insufficient political representation. Key strategies include integrating a gender lens into urban planning to create inclusive infrastructure, promoting women's leadership in decision-making, improving safety and public transport, ensuring equitable access to services, and fostering community-led initiatives and awareness campaigns to eliminate discrimination and violence against women. This book aims to illuminate the relationships between gender inequality, the built environment, and urban planning and design; and to lay out a menu of simple, practicable processes and best practices for urban planning and design projects that build more inclusive cities for men and women, for those with disabilities, and for those who are marginalized and excluded. The work is a process in making a broad discussion of the Urban, Infrastructure, Social Development, and Gender with extensive coverage of participatory urban planning and design. Covering a comprehensive array of plan and project typologies and providing case studies from diverse contexts around the world. This book explores the multifaceted relationship between gender and urban spaces. Students will examine the gendered dimensions of urban planning, design, and policy, with a focus on achieving gender justice and equity in cities. They can understand the concept of gender justice and equity in the urban context; analyse the challenges faced by individuals of diverse genders in urban areas; evaluate the policies and practices that can promote gender equity in city planning; develop practical strategies to create more inclusive and gender-sensitive urban spaces, and apply a gender perspective to real-world urban issues.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Gender and Urban Planning
2. Gender Dimensions of Mobility and Transportation
3. Workplace and Economic Inclusion
4. Violence and Safety in Urban Areas
Glossary of Terms and Concepts
Bibliography
Index