Abstract
This report documents that there are clear and persistent gender differences in travel patterns. Men consistently travel further than women, men are more likely to travel by car and women by public transport, and women's trips tend to be more local. Explanations to these differences are linked to unequal gendered relations in the household and labour market and urban structures as well as gender socialisation. This means that men and women make different uses of a shared system of transport. Transport is an overwhelmingly male-dominated sector. At the EU level, political committees in the transport sector as well as transport research and advisory boards have a marked gender imbalance with less than 15% female membership in most boards and none with equal representation. This also goes for transport-related committees at national levels. Yet with one notable exception: Sweden has a 50-50 balance in the National Transport Committee. Current gender mainstreaming initiatives in the transport sector relate to a wide range of issues: They relate to planning and policy, safety issues, gendering of technology as well as employment. The report substantiates that the implementation of equality programmes, and not their formulation makes up the biggest challenge. One programme does not solve
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Roemer Christensen, H, Poulsen, H, Hjorth Oldrup, H, Malthesen, T, Hvidt Breengaard, M, and Holmen, M.
Gender mainstreaming european transport research and policies. Building the knowledge base and mapping good practices.
Denmark: N. p.,
2007.
Web.
Roemer Christensen, H, Poulsen, H, Hjorth Oldrup, H, Malthesen, T, Hvidt Breengaard, M, & Holmen, M.
Gender mainstreaming european transport research and policies. Building the knowledge base and mapping good practices.
Denmark.
Roemer Christensen, H, Poulsen, H, Hjorth Oldrup, H, Malthesen, T, Hvidt Breengaard, M, and Holmen, M.
2007.
"Gender mainstreaming european transport research and policies. Building the knowledge base and mapping good practices."
Denmark.
@misc{etde_928105,
title = {Gender mainstreaming european transport research and policies. Building the knowledge base and mapping good practices}
author = {Roemer Christensen, H, Poulsen, H, Hjorth Oldrup, H, Malthesen, T, Hvidt Breengaard, M, and Holmen, M}
abstractNote = {This report documents that there are clear and persistent gender differences in travel patterns. Men consistently travel further than women, men are more likely to travel by car and women by public transport, and women's trips tend to be more local. Explanations to these differences are linked to unequal gendered relations in the household and labour market and urban structures as well as gender socialisation. This means that men and women make different uses of a shared system of transport. Transport is an overwhelmingly male-dominated sector. At the EU level, political committees in the transport sector as well as transport research and advisory boards have a marked gender imbalance with less than 15% female membership in most boards and none with equal representation. This also goes for transport-related committees at national levels. Yet with one notable exception: Sweden has a 50-50 balance in the National Transport Committee. Current gender mainstreaming initiatives in the transport sector relate to a wide range of issues: They relate to planning and policy, safety issues, gendering of technology as well as employment. The report substantiates that the implementation of equality programmes, and not their formulation makes up the biggest challenge. One programme does not solve all problems, but opens up new avenues for initiatives and intervention. Gender is a central stratifying factor in transport use at all levels. In order to provide a more complete picture of gender differences, and in order to qualify EU goals of combating multi-level inequalities, there is a need to link gender with the broader axes of inequalities, namely ethnicity, sexuality, age and handicap in future studies of transport and mobility. (au)}
place = {Denmark}
year = {2007}
month = {Jul}
}
title = {Gender mainstreaming european transport research and policies. Building the knowledge base and mapping good practices}
author = {Roemer Christensen, H, Poulsen, H, Hjorth Oldrup, H, Malthesen, T, Hvidt Breengaard, M, and Holmen, M}
abstractNote = {This report documents that there are clear and persistent gender differences in travel patterns. Men consistently travel further than women, men are more likely to travel by car and women by public transport, and women's trips tend to be more local. Explanations to these differences are linked to unequal gendered relations in the household and labour market and urban structures as well as gender socialisation. This means that men and women make different uses of a shared system of transport. Transport is an overwhelmingly male-dominated sector. At the EU level, political committees in the transport sector as well as transport research and advisory boards have a marked gender imbalance with less than 15% female membership in most boards and none with equal representation. This also goes for transport-related committees at national levels. Yet with one notable exception: Sweden has a 50-50 balance in the National Transport Committee. Current gender mainstreaming initiatives in the transport sector relate to a wide range of issues: They relate to planning and policy, safety issues, gendering of technology as well as employment. The report substantiates that the implementation of equality programmes, and not their formulation makes up the biggest challenge. One programme does not solve all problems, but opens up new avenues for initiatives and intervention. Gender is a central stratifying factor in transport use at all levels. In order to provide a more complete picture of gender differences, and in order to qualify EU goals of combating multi-level inequalities, there is a need to link gender with the broader axes of inequalities, namely ethnicity, sexuality, age and handicap in future studies of transport and mobility. (au)}
place = {Denmark}
year = {2007}
month = {Jul}
}