ABSTRACT
We have already seen how housing, services and infrastructure (physical and digital) exert a major brake on women’s possibilities of gaining from urbanisation within the context of prevailing gender divisions of labour, notions of female ‘propriety’, and gender-differentiated access to public spaces in the Global South. These issues are deeply implicated in the sphere of urban productivity, the topic of this chapter, with women’s multiple and intersecting disadvantages across domestic, community and city-wide spaces, and especially in slums, frequently compromising the possibilities nominally afforded by urban environments for the acquisition of education, vocational skills and training, and access to employment and other income-generating activities.
