Women in a safe and healthy urban environment: environmental top priorities for the women's presence in urban public spaces.

BMC Womens Health

Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, College of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.

Published: April 2023

AI Article Synopsis

  • Women in developing countries are often overlooked in discussions about urban public spaces, prompting this study to focus on the factors influencing their presence.
  • A questionnaire was distributed to 256 women, and data analysis using IBM SPSS identified key priorities, with security being the most critical factor influencing women's motivation to engage in these spaces.
  • The study found strong positive correlations between women's age and components like collective memory, identity, liberty, and safety, emphasizing the need for improved security as a priority for their participation in urban environments.

Article Abstract

Today, in developing countries, women's need to be present in urban public spaces and the establishment of everyday social interactions seem to be ignored more than other groups. Therefore, the present study aims to achieve the environmental components related to women's presence in urban spaces and prioritize them. In this study, by scrutinizing the criteria obtained from the interviews, a questionnaire was prepared and randomly distributed among 256 women in the population. IBM SPSS has been used to analyze the data and explain the priorities. The results of the T-test show that security (T-value = 6.508 in T1 test), compatibility with behavioral patterns (T-value = 4.975 in T2 test), eventuality (T-value = 11.064 in T3 test), permeability (T-value = 10.220 in T4 test), attention to climate (T-value = 5.692 in T5 test), liberty (T-value = 11.184 in T6 test), collective memory (T-value = 7.367 in T7 test), variety (T-value = 1.816 in T8 test), complexity (T-value = 13.228 in T9 test), and identity (T-value of 18.905 in T10 test) are the most important criteria in motivating presence in urban public spaces, respectively. According to the results, among the individual characteristics of the respondents, the components of collective memory (r = 0.805), identity (r = 0.784), liberty (r = 0.703), and safety and security (r = 0.644) have had a positive correlation with the age of the respondents. The results of this study indicated that improving security (individual, social, and psychological) is the main environmental priority for women over 18 to be present in urban public spaces.

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