Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 2: Technical Papers (2011) / Chapter Skim
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225 Gender Equality as a Subsidiary Objective of Swedish Transport Policy What Has Happened Since 2004? Åsa vagland, The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems VINNOVA At the 3rd International Conference on Women's Issues in Transportation in Chicago 2004, the author presented a paper on the background and reasons why Sweden has a gender-equality objective in the transport sector.
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226 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 in annual government guidelines for transport agencies, and how the transport agencies -- especially the National Rail Administration (Banverket) and the Swedish Road Administration [SRA (vägverket)
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227GeNDeR eQuAlITY AS AN oBJeCTIve oF SWeDISH TRANSPoRT PolICY • Political arena, • Government briefs and guidelines, and • Reports from government agencies. Political Arena Government Bill on Transport Policy In March 2006, the Swedish government presented a new government bill on modern transport policy (Swedish Parliament 2005a)
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228 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 ing women's and men's transport needs, values, and representation motivate further development toward a gender-equal transport system. The former subsidiary objective is mentioned in the text and the government states that the objective remains relevant and the work needs to continue in the long term and on a wider scale.
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229GeNDeR eQuAlITY AS AN oBJeCTIve oF SWeDISH TRANSPoRT PolICY the annual guidelines was reformulated: "All other subsidiary objectives should be analyzed through a gender perspective." A new intermediate objective has been added to the guidelines: "In 2010, SRA's steering committees should have at least 40 percent women (or men) ." Annual Government Guidelines for 2009 In general, the annual government guidelines for 2009 are shorter and less detailed than earlier guidelines.
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230 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 Follow-Up of Swedish Transport Policy Objectives 2005 In the follow-up report for the year 2004, SIKA observed that all transport agencies report on women's and men's travel patterns in their yearly reports (Swedish Institute for Transport and Communications Analysis 2005)
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231GeNDeR eQuAlITY AS AN oBJeCTIve oF SWeDISH TRANSPoRT PolICY objective on the environment has, at least partly, been analyzed through a gender perspective. The SRA states that there are a number of differences between how women's and men's travel behaviors affect the climate.
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232 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 the road transport system and that travel patterns for women and men are a reflection of gender patterns in society. In the follow-up report for 2007, SIKA reports on how transport agencies have dealt with analysis of all other subsidiary objectives through a gender perspective, on representation of women and men on boards and committees, on gender mainstreaming efforts, and on how women's and men's transport patterns and needs are fulfilled.
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233GeNDeR eQuAlITY AS AN oBJeCTIve oF SWeDISH TRANSPoRT PolICY Also this year, SIKA states that there are still differences between women's and men's travel patterns, and it is difficult to judge to what extent women's and men's transport needs are fulfilled in the transport system. In the report, SIKA refers to research reports analyzing the basic causes behind travel patterns for women and men.
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234 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 ond change is the way the government has decided to use the annual government guidelines. When taking out the objectives and the annual assignments to report to the government about the work toward transport policy objectives, the whole governing structure for government agencies is changed.
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235GeNDeR eQuAlITY AS AN oBJeCTIve oF SWeDISH TRANSPoRT PolICY resources Regeringskansliet: 2009:2: New Anti-discrimination Legislation and a New Agency, The Equality Ombudsman. January.
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