Gender Inequalities

Gender inequality is entrenched in the cultural, political and market systems that operate at household, community, and national levels. Global changes in market access, climatic conditions, and the availability of natural resources intensify disparities in income, in assets and in power among genders. This book aims to explain these gender dynamics at macro and micro levels through GIS and spatial analysis. The first part of the book introduces key concepts of how to integrate GIS in gender inequality research. The second part presents more in-depth case studies, carefully selected such as mapping gender-based violence, gender-inequality in the labor force, refugee mapping, etc.

Esra Ozdenerol has been a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Memphis since 2003. She is the director of the GIS Certificate Program at the University of Memphis. She directs Spatial Analysis and Geographic Education Laboratory. She was also the associate director of Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis from 2010 till 2013. She obtained her doctorate degree in Geography in 2000 and her Master of Landscape Architecture degree in 1996 from the Louisiana State University. Before joining the University of Memphis, she was an assistant professor of Architecture at the Florida International University from 2000 to 2003. Dr. Ozdenerol specializes in geographic information systems and has served as a technical consultant to various public, government, and international agencies. Her current research interests entail use of the geospatial technologies (including geographic information, remote sensing, cartographic and geostatistical analysis) in a diverse range of public and environmental health issues. Her latest book involves studies about the spatial health inequalities.

1 The Global Problem in Gender Inequality: Putting Gender on the Map with GIS 2 Mapping Domestic Violence 3 Geospatial Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence 4 Gender Disparity and Economy in U.S. Counties: Change and Continuity, 2000-2017 5 Social and Environmental Injustice Experienced by Female Migrant Workers in China: The Case of Guiyu Town 6 Spatial Concentration of Social Vulnerability and Gender Inequalities in Mexico 7 The Evolving American Opioid Crisis: An Analysis of Gender, Racial Differences, and Spatial Characteristics 8 How to Undertake an Inequality, Gender and Sustainable Development Analysis: A GIS Approach to Gender Analysis in Pakistan 9 Visualizing Equality in the New Mobility Workforce 10 Spatial-Temporal Patterns of Gender Inequalities in University Enrollment in Nigeria: 2005-2015