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GGR313: Gender and the City Fall 2017 Assignment

   

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IntroductionIt is now close to over forty years since the onset of Women’s Liberation Movement.Markedly, over this time, a lot of changes have occurred which have impacted on women: fromthe workplace as well as classroom; the athletic field and the home front; on letterhead to the lawbooks, today women have a totally different perception and concept of themselves as well astheir role in our societies as compared to their views before 1970s. In a similar way, landscape asa subject of study, has made wide steps toward greater equality in the recent past decades as wellas towards a new recognition of the attachments between environment and social issues. Indeed,this has been and still is appropriate time to look into the influence of gender on landscape –extending from a design profession through an academic discipline to it being a subculturehaving its own history (Prentice, 2002). Landscape as commonly known refers to a piece of scenery that is viewed from a lookoutpoint. However, in human geography, the concept of landscape is a bit different. The Landscapesare taken to be the areas that have socially-created unity resulting from the built environmentincluding the roads, buildings, incorporation of natural landforms as well as signs) and people’sbehaviors within and through that environment as well as the meanings they ascribe to thoseenvironments. Elements in a landscape include: unity, scale, form, texture, colour, variety,balance as well as line. The expressions of these in various landscapes can be under the influenceof gender and can as well impact on how the gender can dictate the roles played by men andwomen. (Mackey, 2000).).2

Discussion Most familiar landscapes in Canada currently depict a mixture of roles played by bothmen and women. The various connections seen between sexuality and gender roles to somesignificant extent are complex. In fact, historians to date continue to debate on this issue.Gender-defined roles, approached as shifting cultural as well as social responses to sexualdifferences, show consistent historical powers as well as categories that link the body toethnicity, age and class. The Better Life Index releasedin 2014 by the Organization forEconomic Cooperation and Development (OECD) indicates that Canadian women, on average,spend about 254 minutes daily cleaning, cooking and caring for children as well. In comparison,men spend 160 minutes on average to perform similar tasks (Mackey, 2000).Figure 1: Female Australian pilotThe women have taken male dominated careers such as pilot as in figure 1. The 21stcentury gender trends are historically deeply rooted in gender roles as defined and dictated bypatriarchy more than by partnership in equal measures. Histories marked with the fight for the3

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