The street is not gender-neutral. Urban thinkers, architects and urban planners have shown that the public space is designed by and for men: its uses, its dimensions, its mobility, its opening hours. To consider the street through the prism of gender, we must understand this reality and combat the resulting spatial inequalities by drawing on the lived experiences of the city’s female residents and female users of the street, their daily lives, their needs and their desires

Today, a third of the people using our streets have reduced mobility.(source). You may have already seen the series of Instagram videos entitled ‘Women holding things’¹ 1 see : Maira Kalman, Women Holding Things, Harper, 2022