ABSTRACT
There are at least three ways of thinking about the relations between geography and women's work. First, there is geographical variation in the degree of occupational segregation and the gendering of jobs and skills. This provides a vivid demonstration of the extent to which skills and gender relations are socially constructed. Secondly, different environments offer varying opportunities to combine different types of work. A close examination of the ways that environments expand or contract these opportunities has important implications for regional and urban planning. Thirdly, women tend to be more spatially constrained; they tend to look for and find paid employment closer to home than do men. This means that many women are highly dependent on locally available employment opportunities, a factor that requires consideration when formulating policies aimed to eradicate sex-based occupational segregation.
