Violence Against Women and Girls in Public Transport : Policy Recommendations for Mexico City

Women face many barriers to using public transport services, despite representing the largest share of public transport users around the world. Transport and infrastructure-oriented barriers are related to constraints in its affordability, acceptability and availability, as well as to the physical a...

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Main Author: World Bank
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/343891610139920574/Violence-Against-Women-and-Girls-in-Public-Transport-Policy-Recommendations-for-Mexico-City
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35015
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Summary:Women face many barriers to using public transport services, despite representing the largest share of public transport users around the world. Transport and infrastructure-oriented barriers are related to constraints in its affordability, acceptability and availability, as well as to the physical access to public transport. There is also a recognition that there are other non-transport-related barriers that can constrain women’s mobility, such as social norms regarding gender and other more personal elements influencing women’s agency, such as self-efficacy and aspirations.