Why Does She Move? : A Study of Women's Mobility in Latin American Cities

This study explores the range of constraints to women’s mobility and access to economic opportunities in six low-income areas of urban Latin America through the lens of agency. The study demonstrates that, apart from transport-related deficiencies,...

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Main Authors:	Dominguez Gonzalez, Karla, Machado, Ana Luiza, Bianchi Alves, Bianca, Raffo, Veronica, Guerrero, Sofia, Portabales, Irene
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	GENDER LABOR MOBILITY ACCESSIBILITY TRANSPORT ACCEPTABILITY TRANSPORT AVAILABILITY TRANSPORT AFFORDABILITY ACCESS TO TRANSPORT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/276931583534671806/Why-Does-She-Move-A-Study-of-Womens-Mobility-in-Latin-American-Cities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33466

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spelling	okr-10986-334662021-05-25T09:33:21Z Why Does She Move? : A Study of Women's Mobility in Latin American Cities Dominguez Gonzalez, Karla Machado, Ana Luiza Bianchi Alves, Bianca Raffo, Veronica Guerrero, Sofia Portabales, Irene GENDER LABOR MOBILITY ACCESSIBILITY TRANSPORT ACCEPTABILITY TRANSPORT AVAILABILITY TRANSPORT AFFORDABILITY ACCESS TO TRANSPORT This study explores the range of constraints to women’s mobility and access to economic opportunities in six low-income areas of urban Latin America through the lens of agency. The study demonstrates that, apart from transport-related deficiencies, several factors at the community, household, and individual levels shape women’s capacity to make and act upon decisions about their mobility. The study consists of five sections in addition to this introduction. Section two: authors discuss key findings from the literature on women’s mobility and how they inform the study design; section three: authors briefly present the methodology; section four: authors describe the factors which shape women’s Agency in Mobility and seek to show how these shape women’s decisions regarding mobility and work; sections five and six: authors draw policy recommendations and conclusions. 2020-03-24T16:47:29Z 2020-03-24T16:47:29Z 2020-03-01 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/276931583534671806/Why-Does-She-Move-A-Study-of-Womens-Mobility-in-Latin-American-Cities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33466 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Women in Development and Gender Study Latin America & Caribbean Latin America Argentina Brazil Peru
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topic	GENDER LABOR MOBILITY ACCESSIBILITY TRANSPORT ACCEPTABILITY TRANSPORT AVAILABILITY TRANSPORT AFFORDABILITY ACCESS TO TRANSPORT
spellingShingle	GENDER LABOR MOBILITY ACCESSIBILITY TRANSPORT ACCEPTABILITY TRANSPORT AVAILABILITY TRANSPORT AFFORDABILITY ACCESS TO TRANSPORT Dominguez Gonzalez, Karla Machado, Ana Luiza Bianchi Alves, Bianca Raffo, Veronica Guerrero, Sofia Portabales, Irene Why Does She Move? : A Study of Women's Mobility in Latin American Cities
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description	This study explores the range of constraints to women’s mobility and access to economic opportunities in six low-income areas of urban Latin America through the lens of agency. The study demonstrates that, apart from transport-related deficiencies, several factors at the community, household, and individual levels shape women’s capacity to make and act upon decisions about their mobility. The study consists of five sections in addition to this introduction. Section two: authors discuss key findings from the literature on women’s mobility and how they inform the study design; section three: authors briefly present the methodology; section four: authors describe the factors which shape women’s Agency in Mobility and seek to show how these shape women’s decisions regarding mobility and work; sections five and six: authors draw policy recommendations and conclusions.
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author	Dominguez Gonzalez, Karla Machado, Ana Luiza Bianchi Alves, Bianca Raffo, Veronica Guerrero, Sofia Portabales, Irene
author_facet	Dominguez Gonzalez, Karla Machado, Ana Luiza Bianchi Alves, Bianca Raffo, Veronica Guerrero, Sofia Portabales, Irene
author_sort	Dominguez Gonzalez, Karla
title	Why Does She Move? : A Study of Women's Mobility in Latin American Cities
title_short	Why Does She Move? : A Study of Women's Mobility in Latin American Cities
title_full	Why Does She Move? : A Study of Women's Mobility in Latin American Cities
title_fullStr	Why Does She Move? : A Study of Women's Mobility in Latin American Cities
title_full_unstemmed	Why Does She Move? : A Study of Women's Mobility in Latin American Cities
title_sort	why does she move? : a study of women's mobility in latin american cities
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/276931583534671806/Why-Does-She-Move-A-Study-of-Womens-Mobility-in-Latin-American-Cities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33466
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Why Does She Move? : A Study of Women's Mobility in Latin American Cities

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