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Women, Work, and Metropolitan Environments

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Women and the Environment

Part of the book series: Human Behavior and Environment ((HUBE,volume 13))

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Women work. They work at home without pay and, increasingly, they also work outside of home for wages. In the United States in 1990, women comprised 45.5% of the labor force, and fully 57.5% of working-aged women worked for pay (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics). Combining paid work with the unpaid work of domestic labor now describes the daily life of the majority of women in the United States and elsewhere, and the nature of the local environment certainly affects the ease with which women are able to carry out their diverse activities (Dyck, 1990; Pratt, 1990). Because of the different settings within which women link domestic work and paid employment (as well as the other activities of daily life), it is important to look at women’s lives in the context of their local environment.

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  1. Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01610, USA

    Susan Hanson & Doreen Mattingly

  2. Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z2, British Columbia, Canada

    Geraldine Pratt

  3. Department of Geography, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, 30303, USA

    Melissa Gilbert

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  2. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Arza Churchman

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Hanson, S., Pratt, G., Mattingly, D., Gilbert, M. (1994). Women, Work, and Metropolitan Environments. In: Altman, I., Churchman, A. (eds) Women and the Environment. Human Behavior and Environment, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1504-7_9

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