Planning for Gender Health Justice: A Scoping Review and Research Agenda

Abstract

Urban planning plays a crucial role in advancing social justice, public health, and gender equity in parallel. Increasingly, scholars are investigating the field’s potential to simultaneously enhance outcomes across all three areas through planning for gender health justice. This scoping review assesses the extent to which planners are incorporating gender in healthy cities scholarship, including current work already being done in this area and gaps where further research is needed. Our analysis suggests that planners are making progress on violence against women in public spaces and planning deficits related to women’s unpaid care labor. However, our review also indicates that further research is needed to address more diverse forms of gender violence, expand the scope of gendered health issues being investigated, and incorporate a more holistic understanding of gender identity. Based on these findings, we outline an integrated research agenda designed to support planning scholars in advancing gender health justice.