ABSTRACT
Planning has a responsibility to ensure that, as both a discipline and a profession, it plays its role in bringing about gender equality. This chapter examines how the topic of gender is dealt with in the education of planners in the US, UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, with an emphasis on course content. It includes information about the international context of gender and women’s issues in planning and development, and the subsequent incorporation (or lack thereof) of gender into accreditation guidelines, then discusses how gender is taught with comments on course development from professors in the field. The chapter concludes with an explanation of why an explicit consideration of gender is necessary in planning education.
