Week 9: Gender planning in transport: the gap between policy and operations.
This lecture will explore the tools which are now available within the policy environment to undertake gender planning. It will also provide a discussion of the existing gap between policy statements and enactment of those statements.
The key readings is:
This week's reading is a checklist on gender and transport issues developed by the Scottish Government. It is easy to read and easy to understand. It identifies in one place many of the issues we have discussed in the course of this lecture series. However, there is a substantial gap between the development and utilisation of such guidance instruments and tools and actual provision on the ground for women's transport needs. For example, the ringfencing of monies within transport budgets to address women's transport needs has not occurred to my knowledge in any social policy context. Given the disparities between women and men across the range of social exclusion/inclusion issues, this constitutes a major gap in policy thinking and action.
Gender responsive budgets are a tool used within gender and development practice - indeed many of the gender and transport guidance tools currently being used have a debt to gender and development practice within the developing world - but have not yet received mainstream consideration in the developed world.
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