Gender Mainstreaming Strategy in the Context for Sustainable Planning od Public Spaces

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to describe a pilot project for the implementation of the gender mainstreaming strategy, so to include gender perspective in spatial issues, with particular emphasis on mobility, transport and social infrastructure on the example of Vienna‘s district Mariahilf. The aim of the author is to show the relevance, procedures and requirements to implement the strategy of gender mainstreaming using the method 5R + 1E, which is evaluation of the method 3R and 4R. This method disclosure of the differences in the position of women and men in the problem area, as well as the analysis of these differences in the context of the socio-cultural situation. The results are related to the situation of Polish spatial policy at local and regional level, in which there is a lack of integration of the gender perspective into local and regional development strategies. A key finding from the study is that urban and spatial planning will be balanced when they take into account the needs of men and women for determining the function of urban spaces, the location of individual objects of urban infrastructure and transport links between them