This thesis explores past and current roles played by women and men in housing construction and delivery processes with particular reference to Botswana.It notes that although presently excluded from construction works, women have in the past constituted substantial proportions of builders in many countries worldwide. While previous studies have tended to attribute current exclusion of women from construction work to either patriarchy, economic development, capitalism or technological changes, the present thesis argues that gender roles in housing construction and delivery processes, like in...