Research Needs and Guidelines on Women's Issues: Planning, Housing and Community Development

摘要

This report suggests new research guidelines for analyzing women's issues and their relation to planning, housing, and community development. The guidelines are based on factors that take into account differences in the circumstances of women, household organization, relations within the household organization that affect relations in the public or work sphere, and the identification of women's issues with feminist theory and history. Another part of the report examines these factors in detail as a framework for a comprehensive analysis about women and planning, housing, and community development. Barriers to defining a woman's issue that arise from the organization and structure of the planning profession are also examined. A review of facts about household formation, birth rates, life span, and labor force participation by women continues the discussion. Finally, guidelines are proposed for research on women's issues in planning with emphasis on housing and community development. Tabular data, footnotes, and two appendices containing a national plan of action and selected data on households, family, and labor force participation are included.