About our chapter:
This chapter proposes a methodology for accurately measuring daily travel associated with care tasks: activities performed by adults for children and other dependants, and the maintenance of the home. These activities are statistically performed by women, often as unpaid work. The travel associated with these tasks is not well described in the transport literature and is still less considered by transport policy agendas. We build the methodological framework for measuring this kind of travel around the innovative concept of mobility of care (Sánchez de Madariaga, Transporte metropolitano y grupos sociales: propuestas para una mejor planificación. Madrid: Ministry of Infrastructure, 2009, Schiebinger et al. Gender innovations in science, health and medicine, engineering and environment (launched 2011: genderinnovations.stanford.edu), 2013), which provides an umbrella category for the design of transport statistics that takes into account gender dimensions in urban transport. The chapter further provides an empirical study that applies this methodology to analyse the daily mobility of women and men aged 30–45 years in the metropolitan region of Madrid.
About the book:
This edited collection brings together feminist research on transport and planning from different epistemologies, with the intention to contribute to a more holistic transport planning practice. With a feminist perspective on transport policy and planning, the volume insists on the political character of transport planning and policy, and challenges gender-blindness in a policy area that impacts the everyday lives of women, men, girls, and boys. The chapters discuss everyday mobility as an embodied and situated activity in both conceptual and theoretical ways and suggest practical tools for change. The contributions of this collection are threefold: integrating gender research and transport planning, combining quantitative and qualitative gender research perspectives and methods, and highlighting the need to acknowledge the politicization of transport planning and transport practice.