Context for Women's Sheds Worldwide

This chapter focuses on Women’s Sheds, a movement that has emerged in several countries on opposite sides of the world within the past decade. It identifies the history, origin, distribution, nature and intent of Women’s Sheds internationally to April 2021. In addition, it also discusses how Women’s Sheds might be located within a typology inclusive of Men’s Sheds and looks ahead to future possibilities in terms of development of a Women’s Shed movement and related research.