The Importance of Housing in the Lives of Women: the Case of Botswana
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Anlr. Lat'Hon is a researcher at the National Swedish Institute for Building Research In Lund, Sweden. She was trained as an architect/ town planner and has a Ph.D. in Architecture. After working"for about fifteen yeatS as a town planner for Swedish municipalities as well as for the government ofBotswana, she started her research on housing in Botswana, with a focus on the transition from traditional to modem housing and Its consequences for low-Income people, especially for women. Currently, shels studying low-cost housing, utbanizatlon, changes in everyday life, and government housing policies In Botswana from the perspective of the government and the household. In my studies of the transformation of urban and rural low-cost housing in Botswana not only the important role of women in providing houses and creating homes, but also the importance of housing in the lives of women has become more and more obvious.1 Today three important roles of housing can be identified:
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