CCIT Seminar: The significance of gender for climate friendly transportation

Description

While different sectors have successfully limited CO2 emissions in preventing severe climate change, the transportation sector has remained overly static and stands out as even moving in the wrong direction. This sector is, to a high degree, marked by technocratic transport planning and autologic implementation over the last 100 years. Within the mobilities paradigm, transport is researched as a larger system constituting economic, social and cultural aspects of society, and in this tradition, inequalities, for instance, related to gender, stands out as an important aspect for sustainable transitions. The gender inequality in in relation to who is planned for recurs when we look at who is doing the planning: it is shown that gender norms shape the way we respond, think and act in relations to a specific topic and the workforce in the transportation sector consist of 80% male employees and even fewer women at the top decision level it has an impact.

Period	5 Feb 2024
Held at	Center for Climate IT