GENDER & MOBILITY

Urban mobility and Gender

A new publication covering a Sustainability Orientated Gender Impact Assessment (GIA) - elaborated with the context of international Cooperation, City and Transport has been issued by KfW Entwicklungsbank. The study, conducted by Meike Spitzner, Frank Weiler, Rahma Andi and Jeff Turner in Jakarta, exposes gender problems that are created or reproduced because of urban transport policies and determines ways of promoting positive gender impacts through urban transport projects.

Women and Transport in Europe

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament, has been conducted as a cooperation between the University of East London and the Wuppertal Institute/Germany. It focuses on women as users/consumers as well as workers in the transport sector. It shows how mobility patterns of women and men differ and is giving important impulses for sustainable and gender-just transport and mobility policies.
Find out more about the project.

Further reading

• Gender Equality & Transport Policy in Sweden
  Gender Equality has been a major goal of Sweden's transport policy since 2001. In her article, Merrit Polk briefly charts the implementation process so far and examines its impact. She concludes that the gender instrument has not yet met expectations and that it has not been able to fully unfold its specific dynamics. This is due to the reduction of gender mainstreaming efforts in conventional gender equality politics and to the continued existence of structural barriers in the transport sector.
  
  
• Gender Equality in UK Transport Policy
  This study has been conducted by researchers of the Universities of East London and Leeds. It shows that men and women use public transport differently. Since it is mostly planned by men, women's needs often remain unmet. A gender analysis clarifies how different usage patterns of women and men are generated and how gender equality in the transport system impacts on other areas.
  
  
• Moving Forward
  This guidebook for city and regional planners has been commisioned by The Scottish Executive Central Research Unit. It evaluates how the interests and mobility requirements of women can be integrated in short-distance traffic planning. The handbook develops objectives for a gender-just traffic planning on the basis of surveys of women and transport company representatives.
  
  
• Factsheet by Ireland's National Development Plan
  This factsheet has been issued by the gender equality unit of the Irish NDP 2000-2006, a far-reaching infrastructure development project. It covers the basics of mainstreaming gender in transport policy and offers gender instruments for the mobility planning practice.