The relationships between women and their environments are examined in terms of access, design and control. Existing research on women has not explored the implications that women's changing roles have for human environments. The intention is to raise questions associated with this topic, to draw attention to existing work and gaps in it, to provide a broad organizing framework for the area, and to propose the use of action research to initiate change in `women's environments'.
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