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Title:

Gendered Transport for the Commute to School and Work: A Review of the Literature

Accession Number:

01626368

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Research on gender differences in travel behaviour dates back over a century and continues to be of interest to transport scholars, planners, and geographers. This article reviews the gender and mobility literature through the life cycle (i.e. from childhood to adulthood), including the commute to school and work through time and space. The paper examines research focused on child and youth travel to school, the influence of gender on travel to paid work outside the home, and explores the relationship between gender, mobility, space and time. The literature demonstrates how travel patterns are generational and gendered; parents influence mode of travel to school for children (e.g. preventing females from walking to school due to fear of strangers), while the presence of children affects travel patterns to work for parents (e.g. women travel shorter distances to work due to household responsibilities). Complex activity patterns and travel demand exist for women as they enter and experience child-rearing stages of life and are associated with generally carrying out more unpaid labor than men. The way women participate in paid work and unpaid household labor, and how this labor interacts with transport systems (or not), remain important subjects of inquiry deserved of greater attention in research and policy. More research on the generational dimensions of mobility preferences, inter-generational relationships, and mobility differences through the life cycle would provide insight into the shifting nature of gendered mobility and parenting norms over time.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE70 Standing Committee on Women's Issues in Transportation.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-06165

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Colley, Michele
Buliung, Ronald

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References

Subject Areas:

Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-06165

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 12:30PM