Transcript Gender, transport and mobility Presentation to TRANSGEN Advisory Board January 2007 http://www.sociology.ku.dk/koordinationen/transgen Margaret Grieco, Professor of Transport and Society, Transport Research Institute, Napier University, Edinburgh EH11

Gender, transport and mobility
Presentation to TRANSGEN Advisory Board January 2007
http://www.sociology.ku.dk/koordinationen/transgen
Margaret Grieco,
Professor of Transport and Society, Transport
Research Institute,
Napier University, Edinburgh EH11 4BN
[email protected]
Most relevant current issues
Time poverty of women
Political consequences of constrained
mobility/accessibility
Health consequences of
contemporary gendered mobility
Rising maternal mortality in Africa
Gender sensitive redesign of mobility
systems utilising new information
communication technologies
Most relevant literature
Women and transport: Mobility is
gender specific.The European
Commission by Alfonso Gonzalez Finat
http://www.cityshelter.org/13_mobil/20te
nd.htm
This link provides access to a longer text on
women and transport. It is important
because the Commission is here
recognising that mobility is gender specific
and provision must be made accordingly.
It is a critical policy text.
Most relevant literature (2)
Gender and Transport
in Less Developed
Countries Deike Peters, CoCoordinator, UN CSD Caucus on
Sustainable Transport
http://www.cityshelter.org/13_mobil/23tend
.htm
This short briefing paper provides a good
overview of gender and transport issues
within the development context
Most relevant literature (3)
Maternal mortality and transport tool
kit. Margaret Grieco and Jeff Turner
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/
mg294/maternalmortality.html
This tool kit brings together the key
materials on maternal mortality and
transport in Africa.
Most relevant literature (4)
Robin Law
Beyond ‘women and transport’:
towards new geographies of gender
and daily mobility Progress in Human
Geography, Vol. 23, No. 4, 567-588
(1999)
This article argues that it is important to
move beyond a ‘women and transport’
perspective and to develop a full gender
analysis of mobility.
Most relevant literature (5)
Margaret Walsh: Gender and the
Automobile in the United States:
Placing Gender and Automobiles
into Perspective
http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/G
ender/Walsh/G_Overview1.htm
These web pages provide a useful
historical overview of the relationship
between gender and the automobile.
Most relevant mapping projects (1)
What Men and Women Want: A
Practical Guide to Gender and
Participation
Helen Buhaenko Vikki Butler
Charlotte Flower Sue Smith
Oxfam, 2004
This book provides an example of mobility
mapping in Wales from a gendered
perspective.
Most relevant mapping projects (2)
Wendy Walker at al. of World Bank
on gendered mobility mapping in
Lesotho using GIS.
http://www.gendertransportconf.com/
UploadedFiles/Ms%20Wendy%20Wal
ker.pdf
This work indicates the search for
greater precision around gender and
mobility for development policy
purposes.
Most relevant mapping projects (3)
Gender in Norway:
http://www.gender.no/
The Norwegian government has
established a site to track and
display progress on gender equity.
The site has the goal of international
visibility. Gender and transport/
gender and mobility do not show as
main categories on this site.
Most relevant mapping projects (4)
Women’s and gender budgets:an
annotated resource list. (Prepared
for the Swedish International
Development Cooperation) by Hazel
Reeves and Heike Wach January
1999: BRIDGE, IDS
http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports/b
b9c.pdf
This provides an institutional mapping
or listing of gendered budgets.
Most relevant mapping projects (5)
Detailed mapping projects of
gendered mobility are scarce on the
ground. There is a need for
substantial improvement in respect
of mapping gendered mobility both
in terms of journeys made and in
terms of suppressed journeys.
Most important transport policy
boards in Europe
National Ministries of Transport
Municipal and City Transport authorities
European Union Transport Authorities
National Ministries for International
Development
National Research Funding Bodies
Despite the recent inclusion of gender and
transport within the European Framework,
there is still relatively little visibility of this
issue in the governance framework of
member states.
Conclusion
The evidence of gendered mobility is
sufficient for the launching of substantial
research programmes within this field of
social policy inquiry, however, the
resources allocated within Member States
and across Europe are insufficient in the
present to provide the systematic analysis
required for a major correction to genderdeficient European mobility systems.