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| THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL ACTIVITY PATTERN OF WOMEN IN THE ERA OF NETWORK INFORMATION: A CASE STUDY OF NANJING |
| HE Yu-lan1, ZHEN Feng1, ZHU Shou-jia2, WANG Da-wei1 |
1. School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
2. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China |
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Abstract Scholars in human geography and city planning have paid attention to gender differences in terms of space with the rising of feminism. As the development of information technology, including mobile communication, penetrating broadly into residents' daily lives, the space-time structure of female residents' daily activities have correspondingly changed. This paper adopts a Time Geography method to analyze the spatiotemporal features of female residents' daily activities in the network-information era in Nanjing. The raw data was collected in Nanjing from the 2012 survey for residents'activities in network information era, including 256 valid female samples. It contained individual attributes, living and employment options, influences of information technology on residents' daily activities, and activity records of the latest 24-hour workday and weekend. The study analyzed the features of theses activity distributions and mapped the path diagrams of female residents' activities in workday and weekend respectively by GIS. According to the female residents' usage of information devices, three information-based levels, high, median, and low, are given to conduct three-dimensional nuclear density analysis. The results showed that female residents spent more time on family works, housekeeping and shopping, compared with males. Because females undertook more housework and usually had other activities during commuting, the paths of their daily activities were relatively complex. Females who are highly informationized have a smaller time-space constraint and higher quality of life than who are low; and vice versa .
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Received: 29 May 2013
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2014, Vol. 29 
