Eastern Mediterranean University Urban Research and Development Center (EMU URDC) and Eastern Mediterranean University Center for Women's Studies (EMU CWS) held an online joint panel on the occasion of 8 November, World Urbanism Day. The said panel, held on Monday, 8 November 2021, at 5.00 p.m. on MS Teams, took place under the moderation of EMU URDC Board Members Assist. Prof. Dr. Müge Rıza and Assist. Prof. Dr. Ayşenur Talat Zrilli.
Participating as a speaker at the panel on “City, Space and Gender”, EMU-CWS President Assoc. Prof. Dr. Süheyla Üçışık Erbilen and Van Yüzüncü Yıl University Sociology Department Faculty Member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Selda Tuncer discussed the situation of cities in the world and in the country from the perspective of gender equality, a rarely spoken subject in the TRNC which forms the basis of contemporary urbanism approaches and is also a part of sustainable development goals.
The panel focused on the impact of gender on the experience of the city and public spaces, the urban rights of women from different walks of life, gender-based inequalities, and the new conditions and challenges created by the pandemic period. In the panel, it was determined that there are many problems in the TRNC and Turkey in terms of women living in the city to safely access the public spaces in the city, to benefit from the services offered by the city and to use their right to shape the city in line with their wishes and needs. Ways of improving the aforesaid problems were also discussed.
