Cities through a "gender lens": A golden "urban age" for women in the global South?

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 9-29

  Chant, Sylvia ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cities; gender; inequality; poverty; property; slums; space

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; GENDER DISPARITY; GENDER RELATIONS; HUMAN CAPITAL; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR MARKET; LANDOWNERSHIP; POVERTY; TRAINING; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN SOCIETY; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 84876001961     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: 17460301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956247813477809     Document Type: Review

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