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Identify and discuss some the major gender differences in the transport needs and uses. What can policy makers do to make sure policies are equitable?
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GENDER AND ECONOMICS Identify and discuss some the major gender differences in the transport needs and uses. What can policy makers do to make sure policies are equitable? There are significant differences in the needs and uses of transport between men and women. This is due to the fact that women's employment, unlike that of men, is domestic and household based, which means that their employment tasks take place within specific spatial and temporal arrangements-the residence. It is difficult for women to combine domestic roles and paid work-especially because of the fact that employers have strong negative stereotypes of women's mobility behaviour which discourage them from employment of women. Women are discriminated against so much so that in the issue of access to company cars, research done by Potter and Cousins, 1983, Greico, 1986, on the Docklands shows that out of those employers offering company cars to employees, not one was in the...
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