Urban reflections through home gardening; Does Gender Matter?

Urban Farm DB summary

A 2023 study by researchers at Ain Shams University, Egypt, asking how gender roles shape small-scale home gardening — which spread during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in low- and middle-income communities — and whether the benefits are distributed equally between men and women or skewed towards one gender. The team ran a quantitative survey and tested its hypotheses using WarpPLS (partial least squares structural equation modelling) to examine the relationships between gender, gardening activities and the benefits obtained. The authors pose the equal-versus-skewed distribution of benefits as an explicit research question and frame the results as material for urban authorities seeking to create a fair and inclusive environment. The abstract does not specify sample size, sampling method or the cities covered, and the cross-sectional design does not establish causation.