gentrification and women

Gentrification has many definitions. However it all comes to one idea that it displaces many of the original residents from the previous working class neighborhood by more affluent people, usually in professional or managerial occupations. In other words, it is displaced by the middle class or higher-income groups. At the same time it physically renovates the housing stock to meet the new requirement of the new owners, which involves the rehabilitation of old houses and streets on an individual basis. However it is usually encouraged by groups such as estate agents, building societies and local authorities. By doing this process, it may increase the housing price and tenure often changes from renting to owning.

From gentrification rather looking at how it may changes the environment and habitat. I would like to explore on how gentrification and the role gender interact with each other; however, I would like to look most into the role of women instead of men. The reason to look into the role of women and the existence of gentrification is that mostly people tends to ignore the existence of women on how it may affect it or how they are affected by it. Therefore, I would like to look at this topic more. However, I would like to see that increase in higher education for women is the major factor that have led to the women being one of the gentrifies.

Gentrification allows female roles to change in the workforce as it beings changes in the demand side. In general, there is an increase in women participating in the labor market for the past 30 to 40 years. This leads to 3 significant effects on the development of the city, this includes the increased in household income, increase in number of small households and time pressure in e...

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... victim of gentrification. There are many factors that cause women to be both the gentrified and the victim of gentrification. Such as the economic change, demographic change and the issue between production and consumption. However, all these factor leads to an idea that there is an improvement in women’s social position. The social position is mainly improved due to the reason that there is an increase in higher education for women. As women’s educational level improve they are more likely to be able to make their own decision for their future, such as family planning and marriage. As there is postpone in marriage, there are more single women in the city and as they do not have any children they are more likely to spend it which stimulates the development in the city. Developers are then more likely to target their market towards this sector.