A United Nations policy brief (2020) compellingly demonstrates the significant impact of COVID-19 on women, particularly working mothers, who take on a disproportionate amount of unpaid care and domestic work, balancing their caring responsibilities with work commitments. Female researchers are also affected. As Pinho-Gomes et al. (2020) reiterate, women’s under-representation in COVID-19 research reflects a broader gender bias in science that should be tackled for the benefit of all. Therefore, focusing research on gender inclusion in (transportation) science, research, design and planning matters now more than ever.
We welcome collaborative partnerships to undertake research on gender and transport. Please email us at witleadership@gmail.com or contact one of our country-based Focal Points.
Abuzo, A., Mateo-Babiano, I., D Mabras, L., & Tagam, C. M. G. (2017). The Gender and Indigenous Transport Nexus: Issues and Challenges of Jeepney Drivers and Passengers in Relation to Travel Time and Delay. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 12, 2321-2332.
Ceccato, V., Loukaitou-Sideris, A., Pérez-Trujillo, M., Mateo-Babiano, I. B., Näsman, P., & Langefors, L. (2020). The Importance of the Transit Environment: Does It Affect the Risk of Sexual Victimization?. In Transit Crime and Sexual Violence in Cities (pp. 253-275). Routledge.
Forbes-Mitchell, J., & Mateo-Babiano, I. (2015, December). Cycling to Work and the Gender Gap in Brisbane: a study of the environmental, sociocultural and individual determinants of gender disparity in commuter cycling in inner-Brisbane. In State of Australian Cities National Conference (ACRN) 2015: Refereed Proceedings (pp. 9-11).
Gholamhosseini, R., Pojani, D., Mateo Babiano, I., Johnson, L., & Minnery, J. (2019). The place of public space in the lives of Middle Eastern women migrants in Australia. Journal of urban design, 24(2), 269-289.
Le Loo, L. Y., Corcoran, J., Mateo-Babiano, D., & Zahnow, R. (2015). Transport mode choice in South East Asia: Investigating the relationship between transport users’ perception and travel behaviour in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Journal of transport geography, 46, 99-111.
Iamtrakul, P., Chayphong, S., & Kesorn, P. (2022). The Impacts of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Students’ Travel Behavior, Thammasat University, Thailand. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 14, 1193-1206.
Mateo-Babiano, Napalang, S.G, Tiglao, N., et al., (2017). Factors that influence women’s participation in public bicycle-sharing programs: A critical review. In Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (Vol. 11).
Mateo-Babiano, I. (2020). The changing nature of travel in Australasia: An auto-ethnographic perspective from a female transport use. Planning News, 46(3), 12-13.
Mateo-Babiano, I. B., Gaabucayan-Napalang, M. S., & Abuzo, A. (2020). Manila, Philippines. In Transit Crime and Sexual Violence in Cities (pp. 63-71). Routledge.
The key mission of establishing an International Research Group (IRG) on gender and transport is to advance knowledge in the topic of gender and transport in Asia and the Pacific, engage with industry through joint project collaborations and to serve as a platform for developing more collaborative, inclusive and supportive culture in gender and transport research, education and practice.
Through this IRG, the aim is to attract and create a platform for transport researchers and professionals who represent the private, public and non-government sectors (not limited to female participants), and whose research encompass the spectrum of gender and transport. More importantly, it is expected that the IRG would have at least one focal point or representative from each member-domestic transportation society.
This project aims to create the Women in Transportation Leadership Network (WiTL), a platform to produce knowledge, foster innovation and increase female-to-female collaborative linkages in Australia and ASEAN. The knowledge network aims to strengthen female capabilities, particularly in research and practice, and increase leadership opportunities to address the diverse transport challenges, particularly issues related to gender and transport, which is key to achieving a more holistic and inclusive global community.
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The purpose of this innovative project Regional Collaborations Programme funded by a COVID-19 Digital Grants is to co-create an ‘Asia-first’ digital knowledge and learning assemblage on gender and transport. The Gender and Transport or GTALK (Gender and Transport Assemblage of Learning and Knowledge) is a unifying framework to raise awareness and to embed planning/policies that will help advance the shared regional opportunity of shaping more gender-inclusive and responsive transportation sector in Australia and Asia-Pacific. Project Outputs can be found Here.
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