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WOMEN in MOVEMENT, transport by women updated: august 2005 Women account for half the population and two thirds of users of public transportation. Despite this, there are almost totally absent form the transport professional world, whether in the ranks of decision-makers (as elected representatives, companies, civil servants or experts, etc...), or among those who undertake transport. Even in user associations, women are very distinctly the minority!
This observation was the reason behing the creation of the association "WOMEN in MOVEMENT, transport in the feminine" during the Congress of the Grouping of Authorities Responsible for Transport (GART) on the theme "Who decides?" in Nantes (France), 1993.
The association takes action so that women may be able to make their point of view heard in the world of public transport, but also in order that public transport is included when the role of women is considered in country or city development.
The association has taken action in various fields: professional practice, organisation of national colloquia, speeches at international colloquia, articles in the specialist press, contacts with those with responsability for questions of womenís equality.
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Very little statistical information on women and public transport was available, whether this related to the presence of women in the transport professions or womenís habits in travelling. Our action therefore is related to improving the system for collection and use of statistics.
From 1995 :
- National statistics on urban public transport networks will supply data on the employment of women in the networks
-Surveys of households on their travelling habits, undertaken in most large conurbations, will be used systematically with distribution according to sex
-Recommendations are being made for local surveys also to be conceived and used to improve knowledge of the behaviour of women and men
-Research into the specific needs of women in the public transport field has begun under the aegis of GART (Groupement des Autorités Responsables des Transports).ACTIONS IN NATIONAL COLLOQUIA: women meetings
-UTP congress, June 94: decision to encourage the appearance of articles on transport in the feminine in the professional press.
-GART congress, Novembrer 94: Catherine Trautmann, the mayor of Strasbourg, presents her experience as a woman, and mayor of a city, who has put the question of travelling at the centre of her municipal action: priority for pedestrians, bicycles and public transport, and construction of a new tramway.SPEECHES IN INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIA
-Council of Europe, Ornsköldsvik (Sweden), March 94: Challenges for European society as the year 2000 approaches. Role and representation of women in the development of regional and urban territory.
Communication: "Local public transport"
-European Congress, Driebergen (Netherlands), September 94: Emancipation as related to physical planning, housing and mobility in Europe.
Communication: "What place do women have in decision-making in the field of urban public transport?"
-OECD, Paris (France), October 94: Women and the city: accomodation, services and urban environment.
Communication: "Women and urban transport"ARTICLES IN THE SPECIALIST PRESS
- in "Transport Public", the review of UTP: womenís points of view concerning public transport, and presentation by professionals in the sector.
CONTACTS with those responsible for Women's Rights
-A survey of regional delegates with responsability for womenís rights, on the specific needs of women in the field of transport and womenís access to transport professions.
-Contacts with Unity for Equality of Opportunity in the General Direction for Employment, Industrial Relations and Social Affairs, European Commission, for public transport to be included in the "Women-in-the-City Charter".
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