The Safety Premium: Gendered Costs and Control in Student Housing in Dehradun
This article examines the gendered dynamics of student rental housing in Dehradun, India and focuses particularly on the socio-economic, affective costs borne by female students, along with their lived experiences with securing safe accommodation. Much like the “pink tax” in retail, where women pay more for equivalent products (de Blasio and Menin, 2015), female […]
Authors
- Uttam Kumar Roy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8522-246X)
- Dikchha Tiwari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9676-0255)
Institutions
- Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Urban Matters
- Published
- 2025-08-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.24834/urbanmatters.2025.08.4
- Primary Topic
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00