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Gender, transport and mobility Presentation to TRANSGEN Advisory Board January 2007 http://www.sociology.ku.dk/koordina

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 m.grieco@napier.ac.uk.

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Gender, transport and mobility Presentation to TRANSGEN Advisory Board January 2007 http://www.sociology.ku.dk/koordina

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  1. Gender, transport and mobilityPresentation to TRANSGEN Advisory Board January 2007http://www.sociology.ku.dk/koordinationen/transgen Margaret Grieco, Professor of Transport and Society, Transport Research Institute, Napier University, Edinburgh EH11 4BN m.grieco@napier.ac.uk

  2. 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

  3. Most relevant literature • Women and transport: Mobility is gender specific.The European Commissionby Alfonso Gonzalez Finat http://www.cityshelter.org/13_mobil/20tend.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.

  4. Most relevant literature (2) • Gender and Transport in Less Developed CountriesDeike Peters, Co-Coordinator, 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

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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/Gender/Walsh/G_Overview1.htm These web pages provide a useful historical overview of the relationship between gender and the automobile.

  8. Most relevant mapping projects (1) • What Men and Women Want: A Practical Guide to Gender and Participation Helen BuhaenkoVikki ButlerCharlotte FlowerSue SmithOxfam, 2004 This book provides an example of mobility mapping in Wales from a gendered perspective.

  9. 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%20Walker.pdf This work indicates the search for greater precision around gender and mobility for development policy purposes.

  10. 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.

  11. 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/bb9c.pdf This provides an institutional mapping or listing of gendered budgets.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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 gender-deficient European mobility systems.

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