Women in Shared Mobility: Addressing Gender Gaps in Public Transportation and Public Spaces

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Women are 55% of transit riders but underrepresented in the transportation workforce and leadership roles. This leads to systems that don’t meet the needs of women, who take shorter, more frequent trips, more often travel with dependents or heavy loads, and experience transportation safety differently. New mobility technologies and services offer the opportunity to address these needs, but often don’t (e.g., women only make up 25-34% of micromobility users). This panel will explore issues including design bias, organizational diversity, and how diversity in planning, engineering, and technology is vital to developing equitable transportation technologies and systems.

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