Evaluating the Role of Gender Equity in Sustainable Development of Big Cities

Sustainable development movement and the women’s movement in the world has shown that in today’s world conditions, achieving a just and sustainable society without the active participation of women is not possible. Some social norms and economic constraints in urban areas of Iran, lead to limitation of presence of women. These constraints belong house and the spaces in close to the house for woman. In past centuries, the safe range for women included house spaces, and semiprivate outdoor space of houses, a dead-end alleys and side porch. In the West, despite the claims of providing a civil society, necessary and requirement to attend and enjoy of urban spaces for all groups from industrial revolution was due to the dominant approaches to the thoughts of people in connection with the space, or close space. Descriptive statistics used in this study included frequency tables, the data show (Figure) the central indices and in the level of understanding of factor analysis, ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and several statistics methods were analyzed using SPSS version 17.