Gender and Transport : A Rationale for Action
Transport can make a big difference in increasing women's productivity and promoting social equity. Yet, little attention appears to have been paid to women's needs in transport projects. How best can transport policies and projects ident...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1999/01/748730/gender-transport-rationale-action http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11504 |
| Summary: | Transport can make a big difference in
increasing women's productivity and promoting social
equity. Yet, little attention appears to have been paid to
women's needs in transport projects. How best can
transport policies and projects identify and respond to the
needs of women? Making transport policy more responsive to
the needs of women requires developing a structured approach
to understand their needs, identifying instruments to
address those needs, analyzing the costs and benefits of
those instruments, and establishing an appropriate policy
framework. Moreover, cross-sectoral impacts of transport
improvements can serve as a basis for raising gender issues.
A first step will be to ensure that at each stage of the
planning process, attention is paid to involving women in
the planning and implementation of projects that affect them. |
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