ABSTRACT
Gender divisions refer not only to the allocation of resources between men and women, but also embrace issues associated with the control of resources, and the power relations through which inequalities between women and men are socially constructed across different locations (Christie 2000: 87). Gender refers not only to the differences between men and women, it is also masculinity and femininity, or the socially constructed definition of what it means to be male and female. The housing system draws upon and reproduces widely and long held notions of femininity and masculinity (Dowling 1998), which in turn, influence and reinforce the ways in which the spheres of production, reproduction and consumption overlap to create disparity in access to and control over resources.
