ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the issue with reference to women residents in an outer suburban housing development in a Canadian metropolitan city. It describes the results obtained from a study designed to examine the extent to which women in the suburbs are more constrained than men in their ability to take advantage of the opportunities the location provides. Postwar suburbia has been studied by many social theorists in an attempt to explain the differences between the way of life in the residential neighborhoods of cities and suburbs. Movement patterns for both groups of women and their husbands were reconstructed from the respondent’s travel logs on the basis of total trips made and the purpose and destination of each stop; several overall trends emerged. The spatial and temporal characteristics of the women’s movement behavior and associated activity patterns reveal the existence of serious inequalities in the form and structure of outer suburban areas.
