While there has been progress on a range of issues influencing gender equity in the workforce, getting to and from work remains a fundamental barrier to participation and equity. Issues such as: access to transportation, experiences such as sexual harassment and assault, the routes taken, modes used, distance travelled, and time and money spent in transit are often shaped by gender. This research adopts an intersectional feminist lens to explore the structural inequities in transport accessibility and mobilities and identifies ways to begin to redress or mitigate their impact to improve accessibility and mobility.
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Publications
- Grant-Smith, Deanna, Johnson, Laurel, Edwards, Peter (2018) Putting children in their place on public transit: Managing mobilities in the child-friendly city. In Silver, C, Freestone, R, Demaziere, C (Eds.), Dialogues in urban and regional planning 6: The right to the city (Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning), pp.201-216.
- Grant-Smith, Deanna, Osborne, Natalie, Johnson, Laurel (2017) Managing the challenges of combining mobilities of care and commuting: An Australian perspective. Community, Work and Family, 20 (2), pp.201-210.
- Carroli L & Grant-Smith D (in press) Promoting women’s right of mobility through digital disruption and a feminist ethics of care. in Truelove Y & Sabhlok A (Eds) Gendered Infrastructures: Dialectics in Form, Identity & Space, West Virginia University Press
