[sustran] under-representation of women in transport-related fora

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tanzarn Nite [mailto:ntanzarn at ss.mak.ac.ug] 
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 9:52 AM
To: Gender and Transport
Subject: [gatnet] Re: Invitation to visit, possibly join New Mobility
Agenda?

I am called Nite Tanzarn, a female Ugandan. I have been working in the 
transport sector as a researcher/consultant for some time now  with a
focus 
on socio-economic and gender concerns. I am preparing for my Phd on
Gendered 
Time Poverty in Development Management - Maximising the (economic)
Benefits 
of Investment in Roads - the focus is on women's relative immobility
related 
to work burden, inadequate access (infrastructure and means of
transport) 
and how this renders their labour non-transferable from the domestic to
the 
market economy. 

I would be interested in joining the New Mobility Agenda. I have also
been 
concerned about the under-representation of women in transport-related
fora. 
Many times I attend meetings/workshops where I am the only woman. The 
expressions that I see on the male colleagues' faces many times read:
"What 
are you doing here." I acknowledge the inroads that have been made
(gatnet 
being one of them, thanks to Pri) but a lot more needs to be done. I
hope 
that this fora will not only improve women's visibility in the sector
but 
also contribute to addressing other prevalent gender inequalities in the

sector.
Best Regards
Nite 

eric.britton at ecoplan.org writes: 

> It has been kindly suggested by our colleague Priyanthi Fernando of
> IFRTD that we get in touch with GATNET in the following context. This
is
> the first of two recent emails which express our concern about grossly
> inadequate representation of women in participation and leadership
> positions in our sector.  We invite you to have a look at the New
> Mobility Agenda at http://newmobility.org <http://newmobility.org/> ,
> and in the event that you feel it can be useful to you, well it would
be
> wonderful to have you with us.  I will post the second note in this
> series later today so that you can see the kinds of reactions this
call
> of 10 August has been greeted. 
> 
>   
> 
> Kind regards, Eric Britton 
> 
>   
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:08 PM
> To: WorldTransport at yahoogroups.com
> Cc: Sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org
> Subject: [sustran] We have a major problem here, and you can help to
set
> it right. 
> 
>   
> 
> Tuesday, August 10, 2004, Paris, France, Europe 
> 
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> 
>  Dear Colleagues, 
> 
>   
> 
> We have a major problem here, and you can help to set it right. 
> 
>   
> 
> I have just inspected the listing of the hundreds of us who are
sharing
> our information and thoughts on these matters of sustainable
development
> and sustainable mobility more specifically, and I note a dangerous
> anomaly.  We are more than 90% male in this forum 
> 
>   
> 
> Is this a trivial fact of 21st century life? Unavoidable?  Neither.
In
> fact, it has long been my belief that one of the main reasons why we
> have failed over all these years to create better and softer mobility
> systems in our cities is that we have de facto turned over the job to
> taskforces almost entirely of men, and not only that men who went to
> college to learn how to move volumes fast and 'efficiently' in rather
> undifferentiated ways.  We have, I have to say, created an almost all
> male transportation paradigm. 
> 
>   
> 
> We need help and we're lucky -- it is right at hand.  So let's start
> with this forum and let me ask each of you to take the time to send me
> the names and emails of at least two capable female colleagues whom we
> can bring into our considerations and achieve the kind of balance
which
> has been needed behind the wise decision making in our field for far
too
> long.  
> 
>   
> 
> Incidentally, if we can find ways to tempt in people with backgrounds
> that extend beyond the usual limits of the traditionally dominant
> fields, and in particular in such areas as cultural anthropology,
> behavioral psychology, community relations, and public health, I think
> we would be able to make real progress.  (Of course we have to make it
> interesting for them, but it's my theory that once we open these doors
> they will figure out how to do this for themselves.  And change us all
> in the process.  
> 
>   
> 
> (I wonder how many of you are going to accept this challenge. ;-) 
> 
>   
> 
> Eric Britton 
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