“When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default.”
Invisible Women, Exposing data bias in a world designed for men – Caroline Criado Perez, p. 66
“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)
“Women are often scared in public spaces. In fact, they
are around twice as likely to be scared as men. […] This fear impacts on women’s mobility and their basic right of access to the city. Studies[…] show that women adjust their behaviour and their travel patterns to accommodate this fear. They avoid specific routes, times and modes of transport. They avoid travelling at night.” [1]
“The city is not just material, but a socio-political construct, a ‘body-politic’ modeled on the structure of the body”
Gender and Urban SpaceDr Natalie Collie
[1] Invisible Women, Exposing data bias in a world designed for men – Caroline Criado Perez, (p. 52-53)