Episode 1 – Gender, Mobility, and Racial Identity: The American Diaspora
This episode explores the intersection of gender, mobility, and racial identity within the American diaspora. It highlights that gender and mobility are not binary experiences; one’s racial identity influences their mobility experience. Understanding these limitations and barriers is crucial for addressing concerns, developing gender-responsive solutions, and advancing equitable access to transport.
In this episode, host Melissa speaks with Tamika I. Butler and Veronica O. Davis, discussing the experiences of the American diaspora and sparking further global conversations. The webinar focuses on how, beyond gender, racial identity impacts one’s experience of mobility, from issues such as increased fear and experiences of violence, persecution, and exclusion, to considerations around cost, access, comfort, and reporting incidents of (gender-based) violence.
Date: 23.02.2024
Episode 2: Gender, Mobility, and Disability: The Intersection of Varied Experiences
Exploring mobility, even with a gendered lens, tends to assume the user is someone who does not experience any physical or neurodiverse limitation to the use and experience of mobility. However, mobility and access to it impacts everyone, regardless of ability, and in fact good walking, cycling and public transport access are integral to participation in society for disabled people and neurodiverse people.
In this episode, host Melissa Bruntlett leads a discussion with Dr. Kay Inkle and Anna Zivarts discuss their personal and professional experiences, helping the audience better understand each person’s individual experiences, barriers, and how best to address them.
Date: 13.03.2024
Episode 3 – Gender, Mobility and Socio Economic Status: Perspectives from India
This episode is part of a series of webinars on the intersectionality of gender and mobility that was realized in collaboration with Mobycon. When we focus solely on the gendered experience of transport, we can often overlook the economic impact of (lack of) access to transport/mobility. Not just in terms of the cost of transport itself, but also lack of access to essential services such as education, healthcare, and employment. Only by understanding this intersection of experience can we identify solutions.
In this episode, host Melissa Bruntlett is joined by Sonali Vyas and Sarika Panda to discuss the Indian experience, including the barriers to access as well as successful solutions helping to create more inclusive mobility.
Date: 25.03.2024
Towards a more inclusive and sustainable mobility in Mexico and Latin America || HSC Round Tables
Check out testimonials from the Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC) Round Tables on ‘Transforming Mobility through Inclusion and Sustainability in Mexico and Latin America,’ held in Mexico City on Feb 27, 2024. Organized by GIZ, TranSIT, TUMI, and Women Mobilize Women, the event featured over 85 representatives discussing solutions for accessibility, safety, and inclusion in mobility. Highlights include a photo exhibition and panels on safety, mobility patterns, and inclusive policies.
Date: 28.06.2024
Webinar: Gender Equity and the 15-Minute City
The 15-minute city model provides and incredible opportunity for enabling more trips to services and amenities within a community in shorter, more walkable distances. Particularly for women, the more connected model of the approach makes performing care trips easier, lessening the burden for women who still perform majority of the care work in homes. However, a growing trend is that as cities plan for more walkable/bikeable communities, without proper care of understanding the existing needs in that space, there exists the risk of gentrification, and pushing out the people who would most benefit from this approach to more closely-knit communities – single mothers, women of colour, low income families, and other overlooked groups.
In this joint collaboration between Women Mobilize Women and C40 cities, and hosted by Mobycon, the opportunities and challenges of the 15-minutes city approach will be discussed. Moderated by Melissa Bruntlett, these topics will be discussed by women working in the field of planning and mobility: Sílvia Casorrán Martos, Deputy Chief Architect for Barcelona City Council, Alice Kaumba, Senior Manager Land-Use Planning with C40 Cities. The webinar is based on the content presented in the short paper: The 15-Minute City: A Feminist Utopia?
Date: 28.09.2022
Road Safety, Inclusion, Equity, Gender and Sustainability: Exploring Links
This webinar explores the linkages that cities are making between road safety and other public policy areas including inclusion, equity, gender and sustainability. The event is part of the Safer City Streets initiative and aims to address questions including: How can all stakeholders work together? Are there tangible actions that build on synergies between road safety and other public policies? How are policy goals related?
Date: 24. 11. 2021
What does Mobility for all mean?
It is a well-known fact that mobility is more than getting people from point A to point B. But a number of questions is bound to arise: how can personal mobility be achieved that is affordable, environmentally friendly, and safe – and addresses the needs of all people? And what does gender have to do with that? These questions were very well answered in the new video of the Technical University of Vienna on YouTube.
Date: 15.01.2021
The driver for boosting Gender Smart Mobility in Europe: TInnGO webinar
The webinar is addressed to policymakers, who are specialized in transport planning with focus on gender and diversity issues. The webinar presents the European Observatory for Gender Smart Mobility built by the TInnGO project responsible for doing reaserch and publishing reports, academic articles, news and data. The main objective of the webinar is to explain the conceptual approach underlying the TInnGO project, based on the central concept of gender smart mobility.
Speakers: Andrée Woodcock
Date: 24.02.2021
WomenMobilizeWomen: Celebrating International Women’s Day with TUMI TV
In this episode of TUMI TV, we celebrate International Women’s Day with you. In times of the COVID-19 crisis, women have been standing at the front lines, keeping our world moving. As TUMI and WomenMobilizeWomen, we particularly observe and realize these disparities when it comes to mobility. We want to highlight the importance of women in leadership, especially in the transport sector which has proven to be so essential for populations around the world, in times of crisis and beyond.
Speakers: Larissa Zeichardt, Dr. Sigrid Evelyn Nikutta, Elsa Marie D’Silva, Laura Ballesteros.
Date: 08.03.2021
Transforming Transportation 2021: Reimagining Safe and Resilient Mobility For Recovery // Build Back Better
In the second part of this three part webinar series hosted by the world Bank and the WRI, sustainability leaders from all over the world discuss how mobility can be reinvented and built back better after the pandemic. This particular part focusses on women’s needs in transport. Let’s make women count!
Date and time: 04 February2021
Speakers: Anitha Bhatia, Assistant Secretary-General for Resource Management, Sustainability and Partnerships, and Deputy Executive Director, UN Women; Sinem Dedetaş, General Manager, City Lines Istanbul, Turkey; Sonal Shah, Founder, The Urban Catalysts, India; Heather Allen, Independent Gender and Transport Consultant; Nato Kurshitashvili, Gender Specialist, Transport Global Practice, World Bank; Franz Drees-Gross, Regional Infrastructure Director, World Bank.
Women and mobility: Should transport be different?
This webinar in the Shaping Mobility Webinar series by PTV Group focused on identifying the need for gender-sensible mobility planning, as well as discussing approaches to inclusive mobility and its surprising effects on employment, development, and safety of communities worldwide.
Date and time: 03 December 2020, 14:00 – 15:00 CET
Speakers: Angie Palacios, Dr. Leslie Kern, Sonal Shah, Prof. Nuno Marques da Costa
Urban Mobility Days 2020: Gender perspectives in urban transport
In this parallel session during the Urban Mobility Days 2020, Gender perspectives in urban transport were discussed. Top experts present effective gender mainstreaming methods for transport planning as well as gender-sensitive smart mobility solutions.
Date and time: 30 September 2020, 14:00 – 15:00 CEST
Speakers: Heather Allen, Marianne Weinreich, Fotis Liotopoulos
TRB Webinar: How Women Fare in the Transit Industry
In the webinar hosted by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, solutions to including more women in the transit industry are discussed. The speakers focus on strategies to support women in transit and share best practices from transit agencies.
Date and time: 2 September 2020, 14:00 – 15:30 Eastern
Speakers: Dr Allison Alexander, Dr Jessica Jenkins, Chelsea Jackson
Coronavirus Speaker Series: Sharing Knowledge to Respond with Resilience
#18 Gender Inclusive Cities
The Global Resilient Cities Network, together with World Bank, hosted this webinar discussing the topic of Gender Inclusive Cities in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: 10 July 2020
Speakers: Daniela Guarieiro, Dr. Kealoha Fox, Keani Rawlins-Fernandez
Transport Planning and Applying the Gender Lens
In this Webinar Series by the MIT, Marina Moscoso from Despacio speaks on how transport planning is designed without the lens of intersectionality and how that effects certain groups over others.
Date and time: 26 June 2020
Speakers: Marina Moscoso
Smart City Training Series: How to Ensure Gender Inclusion for Smart City Services
The webinar by the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development focuses on how to develop gender-inclusive smart city services. The speakers discuss on which aspects need to be taken into consideration to bridge the growing gender digital divide, particularly with regards to sustainable and inclusive urban planning and transport planning.
Date and time: 6 August 2020, 12:30 PM CET
Speakers: Natalie R. Gill, Verena Flues, Elba Fuster Figuerola
Webinar by INTALInC: Gender issues
In the webinar series hosted by INTALInc, the speakers focus on Researching Transport Inequalities in Global South Cities. In part 5 of the series, gender issues in transport are being discussed. After an introduction to the topic of women, development and transport, two case studies from Barrio San Eugenio, Santiago, and Dhaka City are being presented.
Date and time: 16 July 2020, 2:00 PM BST
Speakers: Dr. Tanu Priya Uteng, Dr. Beatriz Mella Lira, Dr. Sharmin Nasrin
Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety: Live Session on Gender and Mobility
Women are more reliant on public transport, more likely to walk further, less likely to have access to drive the family car and often experience harassment on public transport systems. This has an impact on our societies, economies, and families. What can be done to address it?
Date and time: 10 June 2020, 15:00 CEST
Speakers: Marie-Axelle Granié, Naomi Mwaura, Wouter Stes
TUMI TV on COVID and transport – Part 8: Focus on Gender
On 26 May 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, TUMI TV was aired. Speakers from all over the world shared their views on impacts of COVID-19 on transport and recommendations for a green recovery. Part 8 of the program focused on the topic of gender and transport in the face of the pandemic.
Gender Panel with Naomi Mwaura, Sonal Shah and Angie Palacios
Interviews with Sheila Watson and Andrea Maria Navarrete
64th CCT on Sustainable Transportation and the Question of Gender
The intersectional discussion by Cairo Climate Talks focuses on sustainable transportation and the question of gender. Various social considerations are essential to ensure the successful holistic approach to sustainable transportation, one of them being the considerations of gender related issues. Studies show that although the role women in society is rapidly changing, transportation policies around the world are slow to catch up. Women are generally more frequent users of public transportation.
Date: 12 November 2019
Speakers: Dr. Ahmed ElDorghamy, Ms. Sohair Mourad, Dr. Hany Abo El Wafa, Ms. Nouran Salah
Global Urban Lectures: Gender perspectives in urban planning
This episode of the Global Urban Lectures by UNI (UN-Habitat’s partnership with universities worldwide) focuses on gender perspectives in urban planning. Amongst other aspects, this also includes women’s demands regarding accessibility and mobility.
Date: 4 October 2016
Lecturer: Ana Falú
Global Urban Lectures: The Mobility of Care
In this episode of the Global Urban Lectures by UNI (UN-Habitat’s partnership with universities worldwide) the concept of mobility of care is introduced and gender-aware concepts in transportation planning is being presented. The aim is to help understand travel patterns of women and men, by taking into account the travel implications of daily tasks performed by individuals with care responsibilities.
Date: 2 October 2018
Lecturer: Ines Sanchez de Madariaga
Webinar Series Gender & Transport by Mujeres en Movimiento
The webinar series (in Spanish language) discusses a broad field of topics related to gender and mobility, with a focus on the Latin American region.
Episodes:
1 – Gender and Transport in Latin America – an introduction
2 – Mobility patterns from a gender perspective
3 – Women and urban cycling
4 – Mobility planning from a gender perspective
5 – Security audits – examples and scope
6 – Participation of women in the sector – overcoming barriers
7 – Combatting sexual harassment in public transport
8 – Mobility of care in times of COVID-19
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