📢Our new study is out!
❌🚍♀️Gender-based discrimination in transport perpetuates mobility poverty, limiting access to education, jobs & social services.
✅👵👩🦽🤰It's time for a European transport policy based on inclusion & sustainability for all.
➡️https://left.eu/issues/publications/study-reveals-gender-based-barriers-in-transport-and-mobility/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633778231215108096
The study will be presented by the authors today at
our event "overcoming gender-based barriers in transport & mobility".
📆9 March 3-5pm, on-line and in presence
ℹ️ Registration & info: https://left.eu/events/gender-based-barriers-transport/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633778237548445697
Policymakers have ignored the needs of women in #Transportation – both as users and as workers - for far too long.
We must target gender discrimination to redesign transport planning & policies. That goes hand in hand with #sustainability.
@ElenaKountoura
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633883169916059694
Silvia Sansonetti and Roberta Paoletti from the Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini conducted study on gender & mobility. At today's presentation, Roberta underlines that transport #mobility profoundly affects #SocialJustice and social inclusion.
#genderequity
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633883173758332928
Designing and planning public transport considering affordability, availability, and sustainability is also an environmental issue. Counteracting climate change by reducing CO2 emissions is a priority, but the most vulnerable groups should not bear its costs.
Silvia Sansonetti
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633883177327394837
Greek streets were not designed by women. If they had, they'd have room for our children to walk to school and ramps for grandma's wheelchair.
They wouldn't be the killing fields they are now.
We are determined to fix that!
- Ilia Iatrou, Moms+ in the street, Athens
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633883183996338182
Mobility is at the ❤️of societies' development - a cohesive, egalitarian and safe one. Ensuring equal rights, recognizing the specific claim of women workers in transportation & overcoming the constraints for safe transport use are central to a progressive & emancipatory policy.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633883187423354887
We have to talk about gender equity beyond the 'vulnerable users' paradigm. Women constitute 50% of transport users, at the same time, 'women' are a diverse group, with intersectional experiences as transport users, workers and decision makers, Isobel Duxfield @POLISnetwork says.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633883191961591811
Catarina Cardoso, Member of the Portuguese Railways Workers’ Committee: We are still a public company! We will fight to continue this way for the sustainable railway mobility that the population deserves & the environment demands because there is no railroad without rail workers.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633883196021694464
Sabine Trier @ETF_Europe Deputy General Secretary on their campaign #GetMEHomeSafely:
"A lack of safe commuting options is not only a violation of women's rights but also a significant barrier to attracting and retaining women in the transport industry."
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633883201302036502
Tackling discrimination against women workers in the transport sector is the first step to implement a mobility model that fully fits women, Leila Chaibi says.
#NousToutes #genderequity
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633883206855294982
Transport systems often overlook women's needs in design & employment. Maria Chiara Leva @WeAreTUDublin explains the DIAMOND project that uses data mining & elicitation techniques to gather stakeholder insights and create a fair and inclusive transport system.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633883180653596672