Gender and Mobility in the Developing World

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Gender and Mobility in the Developing World

dc.contributor.author	Uteng, Tanu Priya
dc.date.accessioned	2012-06-26T15:38:28Z
dc.date.available	2012-06-26T15:38:28Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.description.abstract	'Access' is primarily a gendered phenomenon in the developing countries, pertaining to all the subsets of access, i.e. access to information, rights, land, money, education, skills, political participation and voice. It thus becomes incumbent upon the policy makers and development practitioners to shred down the details of these 'constrained accesses' to truly empower women. This study highlights the ways in which constrained (daily) mobility i.e. the element of physical access to different facilities bears upon the issue of women empowerment. Rather than being a singular function of transport provision, the daily mobility of women in developing countries is guided by a set of complex hierarchies. This study contends that the following elements, though not exhaustive in nature, are highly influential in gendering of mobility in the present times: prevalent social/cultural norms, transport infrastructure, physical/area planning, effects of globalization, governance (women's presence and participation in informal sector and micro-credit schemes), pre and post disaster/conflict rehabilitation process and access to information and communication technologies (ICTs). Although the study is primarily a review of recent academic and policy-oriented literature, the core idea has been to salvage the theme of 'women and transport' from the narrow confines of transport-related understanding and highlight that 'mobility' is a multi-faceted phenomenon and bears significant impact on the overarching aim of women empowerment.	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/9111
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/9111
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	World Development Report 2012
dc.title	Gender and Mobility in the Developing World	en
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea	Gender
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-05T11:57:40.841872Z
okr.globalpractice	Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpractice	Transport and ICT
okr.language.supported	en
okr.region.administrative	Africa
okr.region.administrative	Europe and Central Asia
okr.region.administrative	Middle East and North Africa
okr.region.administrative	Latin America and Caribbean
okr.region.administrative	East Asia and Pacific
okr.region.administrative	South Asia
okr.relation.associatedurl	https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/4391
okr.topic	Gender
okr.topic	Rural Development
okr.topic	Transport
okr.topic	Urban Development