Editing Gentrification (section)

===Women===
Women increasingly obtaining higher education as well as higher paying jobs has increased their participation in the labor force, translating to an expansion of women who have greater opportunities to invest. Smith suggests this group "represents a reservoir of potential gentrifiers."<ref name="Butler page needed"/> The increasing number of highly educated women play into this theory, given that residence in the inner city can give women access to the well-paying jobs and networking, something that is becoming increasingly common.<ref name="Lees page needed"/>

There are also theories that suggest the inner-city [[lifestyle (sociology)|lifestyle]] is important for women with children where the father does not care equally for the child, because of the proximity to professional childcare.<ref name="Butler page needed"/> This attracts single parents, specifically single mothers, to the inner-city as opposed to suburban areas where resources are more geographically spread out. This is often deemed as "marginal gentrification", for the city can offer an easier solution to combining paid and unpaid labor. Inner city concentration increases the efficiency of commodities parents need by minimizing time constraints among multiple jobs, childcare, and markets.<ref name="Lees page needed"/>