This study demonstrates that women in public planning agencies have not been fully integrated into professional practice. Criteria for gaining access to higher job positions for women and men are similar. However, men tend to have more qualifications than women, and they have higher job positions. For women, centralization of management is particularly important for obtaining higher job positions. The criteria for obtaining more income are essentially the same for women and men despite the fact that women make less income. Because women have not been fully integrated into the planning profession, they do not fulfill job criteria as well as men.
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