Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 2: Technical Papers (2011) / Chapter Skim
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105 Youth Transport, Mobility, and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa The Gendered Journey to School Gina Porter and Kate Hampshire, Durham University, United Kingdom Albert Abane, University of Cape Coast, Ghana Alister Munthali and elsbeth Robson, University of Malawi, Malawi Mac Mashiri, CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa Augustine Tanle, University of Cape Coast, Ghana This paper draws on empirical data from a three-country (Ghana, Malawi, and South Africa) study of young people's mobility to explore the gendered nature of children's journeys to school in sub-Saharan Africa.
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106 wOMeN'S ISSUeS IN TRANSPORTATION, vOLUMe 2 Following a short review of background literature and methods, the authors present and comment on the comparative survey data for the locations in which they worked. The implications of the findings are examined for gendered patterns of access to education, and areas in which policy intervention could be beneficial are suggested.
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107YOUTH TRANSPORT, MOBILITY, AND SeCURITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA are in part related to their particularly heavy household duties, but also associated with cultural perceptions regarding the (limited) value of girls' education, and perceived dangers for girls who have to travel a long distance to school or board away from home.
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108 wOMeN'S ISSUeS IN TRANSPORTATION, vOLUMe 2 is significantly lower than boys in the periurban locations surveyed, perhaps because in this settlement type girls' household contributions through retail and other employment in a nearby urban economy are highest. School attendance figures are actually much more important than enrollment figures in terms of children's access to education: very many children who are enrolled spend many days out of school.
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109YOUTH TRANSPORT, MOBILITY, AND SeCURITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA not surprising given that this is the settlement type in which the most children are likely to attend the nearest school. Journey time is more varied in both urban and periurban locations, reflecting proximity to schools in urban areas, but also the tendency to attend a school other than the closest, especially in urban locations.
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110 wOMeN'S ISSUeS IN TRANSPORTATION, vOLUMe 2 while the child is in lessons. Fears regarding the vulnerability of bicycles to theft at school or on the journey to and from school were also expressed.
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111YOUTH TRANSPORT, MOBILITY, AND SeCURITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA of danger reported in remote rural South Africa (Table 8)
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112 wOMeN'S ISSUeS IN TRANSPORTATION, vOLUMe 2 buses and combis, even bicycles (the latter especially in Malawi)
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113YOUTH TRANSPORT, MOBILITY, AND SeCURITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA However, the data are perhaps more usefully examined below in terms of specific dangers from rape. Figures for Ghana in the generalized category of risk from attack by people were substantially higher than for rape or for verbal harassment (below)
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114 wOMeN'S ISSUeS IN TRANSPORTATION, vOLUMe 2 groups with their siblings and friends -- their parents are at work, on the farm, or otherwise occupied (Table 15)
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115YOUTH TRANSPORT, MOBILITY, AND SeCURITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 1. expansion of girls' boarding house provision and general boarding provision, especially at primary schools.
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116 wOMeN'S ISSUeS IN TRANSPORTATION, vOLUMe 2 Khandker, S
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