Mobility

Mobility has been planned in a homogeneous way for all citizens from the experiences and needs of men and, therefore, leaving out the requirements and experiences of women.

It has often been related only to the obligatory journeys to work or study. But there are other daily activities that force citizens to move, such as going shopping, accompanying children to school or going to a medical appointment.

These differential mobility patterns between men and women, together with the traditional invisibility of women in the analysis of mobility, lead to the need to incorporate the gender perspective into mobility.

Travel, reasons, duration and course

The majority of the population's journeys are to and from work, but in the case of women, as they combine work responsibilities with care and reproduction tasks, they have an unavoidable higher personal mobility than men throughout their life cycle. This also means that women make more journeys at more varied times.

Means of transport

Women are more users of public transport services, and therefore more dependent on the services of the transport network. Thus, from a gender perspective, it is very important to incorporate the dimension of proximity into public transport services.