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Measuring Mobilities of Care, a Challenge for Transport Agendas

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This chapter proposes a methodology for accurately measuring daily travel associated with care tasks: activities performed by adults for children and other dependants, and the maintenance of the home. These activities are statistically performed by women, often as unpaid work. The travel associated with these tasks is not well described in the transport literature and is still less considered by transport policy agendas. We build the methodological framework for measuring this kind of travel around the innovative concept of mobility of care (Sánchez de Madariaga, Transporte metropolitano y grupos sociales: propuestas para una mejor planificación. Madrid: Ministry of Infrastructure, 2009, Schiebinger et al. Gender innovations in science, health and medicine, engineering and environment (launched 2011: genderinnovations.stanford.edu), 2013), which provides an umbrella category for the design of transport statistics that takes into account gender dimensions in urban transport. The chapter further provides an empirical study that applies this methodology to analyse the daily mobility of women and men aged 30–45 years in the metropolitan region of Madrid.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This study analysed gender biases in the four main Spanish transportation surveys: Movilia, conducted at the national level by the Ministry of Infrastructure, which includes data from all metropolitan areas (Ministerio de Fomento 2007); two surveys conducted by the regional government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya 2006), and one conducted by the regional government of Madrid (Consorcio de Transportes de Madrid 2004; Sánchez de Madariaga 2009).

  2. 2.

    The previous research showing the innovative concept mobility of care has been showcased as a case study in the EU–US project Gendered Innovations http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/case-studies/transportation.html. This project provides analytical methods and case studies on how to introduce gender dimensions into the content of research in technological and medical fields. The design of this methodology and its application to the region of Madrid is a result of the PhD dissertation by Elena Zucchini (2016): “Género y transporte: análisis de la movilidad del cuidado como punto de partida para construir una base de conocimiento más amplia de los patrones de movilidad. El caso de Madrid”, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, supervised by Inés Sánchez de Madariaga.

  3. 3.

    On the issue of gender bias in research and how to counteract it, see the Gendered Innovations Project mentioned above.

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de Madariaga, I.S., Zucchini, E. (2019). Measuring Mobilities of Care, a Challenge for Transport Agendas. In: Scholten, C.L., Joelsson, T. (eds) Integrating Gender into Transport Planning. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05042-9_7

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