Violence Against Women and Girls in Public Transport : Policy Recommendations for Mexico City

Women face many barriers to using public transport services, despite representing the largest share of public transport users around the world. Transport and infrastructure-oriented barriers are related to constraints in its affordability, acceptability and availability, as well as to the physical a...

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spelling okr-10986-350152021-04-23T14:02:14Z Violence Against Women and Girls in Public Transport : Policy Recommendations for Mexico City World Bank PUBLIC TRANSPORT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN GENDER SEXUAL HARASSMENT RAPID TRANSIT Women face many barriers to using public transport services, despite representing the largest share of public transport users around the world. Transport and infrastructure-oriented barriers are related to constraints in its affordability, acceptability and availability, as well as to the physical access to public transport. There is also a recognition that there are other non-transport-related barriers that can constrain women’s mobility, such as social norms regarding gender and other more personal elements influencing women’s agency, such as self-efficacy and aspirations. 2021-01-14T20:15:39Z 2021-01-14T20:15:39Z 2020-05-20 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/343891610139920574/Violence-Against-Women-and-Girls-in-Public-Transport-Policy-Recommendations-for-Mexico-City http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35015 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Women in Development and Gender Study Latin America & Caribbean Mexico
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topic PUBLIC TRANSPORT
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
GENDER
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
RAPID TRANSIT
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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
GENDER
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
RAPID TRANSIT
World Bank
Violence Against Women and Girls in Public Transport : Policy Recommendations for Mexico City
geographic_facet Latin America & Caribbean
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description Women face many barriers to using public transport services, despite representing the largest share of public transport users around the world. Transport and infrastructure-oriented barriers are related to constraints in its affordability, acceptability and availability, as well as to the physical access to public transport. There is also a recognition that there are other non-transport-related barriers that can constrain women’s mobility, such as social norms regarding gender and other more personal elements influencing women’s agency, such as self-efficacy and aspirations.
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title Violence Against Women and Girls in Public Transport : Policy Recommendations for Mexico City
title_short Violence Against Women and Girls in Public Transport : Policy Recommendations for Mexico City
title_full Violence Against Women and Girls in Public Transport : Policy Recommendations for Mexico City
title_fullStr Violence Against Women and Girls in Public Transport : Policy Recommendations for Mexico City
title_full_unstemmed Violence Against Women and Girls in Public Transport : Policy Recommendations for Mexico City
title_sort violence against women and girls in public transport : policy recommendations for mexico city
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/343891610139920574/Violence-Against-Women-and-Girls-in-Public-Transport-Policy-Recommendations-for-Mexico-City
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