Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 2: Technical Papers (2011) / Chapter Skim
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85 How Does Fear of Sexual Harassment on Transit Affect Women's Use of Transit? Hsin-Ping Hsu, University of California, Irvine The purpose of this study is to understand how women's fear of sexual harassment on transit changes their transit use and travel behavior.
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86 wOMeN'S ISSUeS IN TRANSPORTATION, vOLUMe 2 lar demographic characteristics will modify their use of public transit in a certain way because of their fears of sexual harassment. Also, it is unrealistic to imagine the detailed pattern of change in travel behaviors before any data or evidence is available.
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87eFFeCT OF SexUAL HARASSMeNT ON wOMeN'S TRANSIT USe Though this approach is strong in finding the patterns of women's fear of crime, it is unable to provide a complete explanation of the two paradoxes in women's fear of crime. Some scholars have proposed that, to women, fear of crime is simply fear of sexual crime, because women are physically more vulnerable and more likely to be sexually victimized than men (Scott 2003)
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88 wOMeN'S ISSUeS IN TRANSPORTATION, vOLUMe 2 ReseaRch methods Large-scale, useful statistics on this topic are unavailable. Though some transit agencies have ridership data by gender, and some local governments have already conducted surveys on sexual harassment on transit -- for example, in 1988 women Plan Toronto and Metro Taskforce on Public violence Against women and Children distributed a questionnaire asking women to share their experiences on public transit with a focus on sexual assault and harassment (wekerle 2005)
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89eFFeCT OF SexUAL HARASSMeNT ON wOMeN'S TRANSIT USe free-access social networking website and has numerous active users worldwide, so it was easy for the online focus group participants to log in and write their comments on the discussion board. An examination of the results of different focus groups allows a cross-cultural comparison of women's perspectives of sexual harassment on transit.
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90 wOMeN'S ISSUeS IN TRANSPORTATION, vOLUMe 2 2. women's comparisons of sexual harassment on transit with other public spaces: when comparing sexual harassment on transit with sexual harassment in other public spaces such as workplaces, participants' opinions become diverse, though they all pointed out that sexual harassment on transit usually happens in a closed space where strangers take environmental opportunities to harass: Transit is different, because there is no authority to report it to, unless the harassment becomes flagrant or violent.
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91eFFeCT OF SexUAL HARASSMeNT ON wOMeN'S TRANSIT USe Some participants who lived in Taiwan before and now work or study in the United States mentioned that in general the ways people deal with sexual harassment issues in the two countries are very different. In the United States sexual harassment is a very sensitive issue; people take it more seriously, and they are more supportive and willing to help those who encounter this problem.
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92 wOMeN'S ISSUeS IN TRANSPORTATION, vOLUMe 2 not ride transit after dark, and some avoid bus and transit that pass through areas with high crime rates. Therefore female nonchoice riders do modify their use of transit in minor ways.
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93eFFeCT OF SexUAL HARASSMeNT ON wOMeN'S TRANSIT USe most Taiwanese participants responded in another similar way. Merely increasing the numbers of American and Taiwanese participants might not be helpful.
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94 wOMeN'S ISSUeS IN TRANSPORTATION, vOLUMe 2 Schulz, D., and S Gilbert.
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