Highlight the fact that space is not neutral Plan spaces to encourage equal social relations between men and women Make sure to involve women as active participants in the planning process. Safe Public Transport. National and Municipal Policies and Laws. Develop safety policies with a gender focus Ensure that safety policies are implemented using a gender approach Monitoring and evaluating gender-based safety policies. Monitoring and Evaluation.
Create mechanisms for monitoring Create mechanisms for evaluation. A safe city for women and girls is… A city where women and girls can enjoy public spaces and public life without fear of being assaulted. A city where violence is not exercised against women and girls in either the home or the street. A city where women and girls are not discriminated against and where their economic, social, political, and cultural rights are guaranteed. A city where women and girls participate in making decisions that affects the community in which they live.
Introduction by Regina Yau. Written and researched by Susanna Lim with additional research and writing by Regina Yau. Knowledge is power, and the ability to collect and use data in an effective, strategic and meaningful way is one of the starting points cities can use to better understand how they can make their public spaces safer for women.
From surveys to interviews to paying attention to petitions, there are plenty of ways to collect data as part of planning safer urban spaces. For example, in the s, a simple survey in Vienna triggered the profound realisation by city planners that men and women have very different needs for public structures and systems including mass transit, street design, and workplace design.
This resulted in the planners adding features that addressed the need of women for safety and reliable public transportation. Well-lit streets, more transparent public spaces and parking lots, with surveillance cameras, panic buttons, talk-back systems and greater footfall can make a huge positive impact on the safety of women in the city.
Well-designed streets can tremendously lessen the risk of violence against women in public spaces, allowing women the freedom to go out in public at whatever hour they wish without constant fear of being followed, threatened or harassed.
Women generally have fewer transportation options because the ongoing pay gap due to gender inequality means that they earn less than men and are less likely to own personal transport such as a car which can be very costly to buy, run, and maintain. In very conservative countries like Saudi Arabia, it was only very recently that women were allowed to drive cars. Therefore, one of the first steps cities can — and should — take for making their public spaces safer is to provide well-connected public transit systems that serve more districts and neighbourhoods, with stops and stations ideally within walking distance of most buildings and streets in the surrounding area.
According to the United Nations, men and women use public transport differently due to their social roles and women often take longer multi-stop trips on public transport as part of fulfilling their household and caretaking responsibilities.
This means women frequently end up paying cumulatively higher fares because they have to use multiple stops and sometimes, even multiple forms of public transit. This, coupled with the gender income disparity, may make public transport inaccessible for low-income women who are frequently also from marginalised groups.
Thus there is ample evidence to show how gender affects access to resources, opportunities, and sense of safety throughout the city — creating quite different sets of experiences for women and girls and men and boys. Read part II of this article here. The authors wish to thank the editors for their permission to share this article. She has extensive experience in working with diverse populations in the global North and South.
With a bachelor in International Relations and Diplomacy from Ohio State University, she approaches the challenges of urban development and governance from a global perspective. Kassandra is especially interested in the intersection of climate change and gender in urban areas.
Currently Kassandra is pursuing her planning career in Paris, France. Latest posts by Kassandra McCleery see all. Previous Next. This article is a shortened version of K. Travers, M. Shaw and K. Assiago, A. Tinoco, and F. Vanderschueren eds. Ciudad y Seguridad. Author Recent Posts.
Alexandra Park, a green expanse in the English coastal town of Hastings, is sprawling and lovely. It has wooded areas and several ponds, as well as two long, wide paths which weave around gently sloping lawns, gardens, trees and even a miniature railway track. It has just about anything a parkgoer could want — except lights, security cameras and other safety equipment. But violent incidents can take place even during the day, as Kay Early knows all too well.
In June , she was walking her dog when a man started following her, then punched her repeatedly in the face. But the attack has had severe repercussions for Early, a year-old support worker for people with autism, who has been living with PTSD ever since. It could have progressed if there had been surveillance video in the park, the investigator said.
Both the Sheffield and the Hastings campaigns predated the disappearance of Sarah Everard as she walked home in London. One element of that transformation is thoughtful, inclusive urban design. This involves relatively small changes — like more walkable streets, open gathering spaces and well-lit pathways — so that women feel visible and welcome in public spaces. Of course, women experience public safety in varied ways. Almost universally, those with more wealth will have more options for navigating, or avoiding, insecure spaces.
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