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Scoping the field internationally  \nBarry Golding Federation University  \nLucia Carragher  \nDundalk Institute of Technology Annette Foley  \nFederation University  \nOur paper focuses on delineating and scoping international Women’s Sheds, a movement that has emerged within the past decade, mainly in Australia, Ireland and the UK. It addresses two main research questions. Firstly, what is the origin, distribution, nature and intent of Women’s Sheds internationally to March 2021? Secondly, how might Women’s Sheds be located within a typology inclusive of Men’s Sheds and a range of community development models? We employed a systematic search via the internet in 2020-21, followed up by attempted email or phone contact to publicly reported Women’s Shedsand like organisations internationally. In the process, we created a publicly shareable blog including a database of 122 existing, previously active, developing or planned Women’s Sheds and like organisations to 13 March 2021. We identify four nations where self-identified Women’s  \nThe Women’s Shed movement: Scoping the field internationally 151  \nSheds have operated or commenced within the past decade: Australia (61), the UK (30), Ireland (28) and New Zealand (3), particularly during the five years between 2014 and 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic seriously curtailed this previous momentum and development after March 2020. We identify some similarities but also important differences between Women’s andMen’s Sheds. We propose a typology that accounts not only for the different ways in which Women’s Sheds operate and women participate within their communities but also the different ways in which they locally collaborate (or not) with Men’s Sheds in different countries. We conclude that Women’s Sheds have largely been created by women in order to claim the shed as a positive female gendered space, in order to create an alternative community of women’s hands-on practice.  \nKeywords: women, shed, history  \nIntroduction  \nMore than a decade ago Golding, Kimberley, Foley and Brown (2008) explored the genesis and growth of neighbourhood houses and Men’s Sheds in community settings. Our paper does similarly in relation to Women’s Sheds, which have developed ‘below the radar’ over the past decade, mainly in Australia, Ireland and the UK, but also in New Zealand. These are the same countries in which Men’s Sheds movements have had the most traction over the past two decades. While the number of Women’s Sheds measured by the total number of successful and attempted start-ups internationally remains relatively small (122:  \napproximately 4% of the total number of Men’s Sheds), there now is a sufficient number and range to begin to map and scope the field.  \nThe history and development of the now international Men’s Sheds movement that goes back at least two decades is reasonably well known (Golding, 2015). Golding noted in 2015 that a small number of organisations in the UK had already been operating as Women’s Sheds. Our current research suggests that at least six Australian Women’s Sheds were operating before 2015, by which time 1,325 Men’s Sheds were open (Golding, 2015, p.28). Golding (in press, 2021) identifies that approximately twice that number of Men’s Sheds (2,650) were  \n152 Barry Golding, Lucia Carragher & Annette Foley  \nopen to March 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to approximately 120 Women’s Sheds.  \nBarry Golding’s (2015) The Men’s Shed Movement book includes four pages (pp.364-367) summarising data on the critically important role of women in creating and supporting individual Men’s Sheds as well as the now international movement. In Australia where the first Men’s Sheds opened over two decades ago, decisions about women’s involvement in the shed as participants had typically been made at a local level. Whilst in most Australian Men’s Sheds it is solely or mainly men who par","cbCaio2F4KtfNLcB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaio2F4KtfNLcB","pdf",229160,25,"English","# Introduction\n## Early history of Women’s Sheds\n## International scope and typology","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of the paper on Women’s Sheds?\",\"answer\":\"The paper maps and scopes the international Women’s Shed movement, defining its origin, distribution, nature, and intent up to March 2021.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the authors collect their international Women’s Shed data?\",\"answer\":\"They conducted a systematic internet search in 2020–21 and attempted follow-up contact via email or phone with publicly reported Women’s Sheds and similar organisations.\"},{\"question\":\"Which countries did the paper identify as having Women’s Sheds over the past decade?\",\"answer\":\"It identifies Australia, the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand as the four nations where self-identified Women’s Sheds operated or commenced within the past decade.\"}]","The Women’s Shed movement - Scoping the field internationally | PDF",1792076421,63]