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Gender Patterns of Human Mobility in Colombia: Reexamining Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration

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Abstract

Public stakeholders implement several policies and regulations to tackle gender gaps, fostering the change in the cultural constructs associated with gender. One way to quantify if such changes elicit gender equality is by studying mobility. In this work, we study the daily mobility patterns of women and men occurring in Medellín (Colombia) in two years: 2005 and 2017. Specifically, we focus on the spatiotemporal differences in the travels and find that purpose of travel and occupation characterise each gender differently. We show that women tend to make shorter trips, corroborating Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration. Our results indicate that urban mobility in Colombia seems to behave in agreement with the “archetypal” case studied by Ravenstein.

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  • Gender gap
  • Ravenstein’s laws of migration
  • Urban mobility
  • Networks

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AC acknowledges the support of the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN) through Grant IJCI-2017-34300.

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  1. BioComplex Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

    Mariana Macedo, Hugo Barbosa & Ronaldo Menezes

  2. Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia

    Laura Lotero

  3. Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Alessio Cardillo

  4. Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

    Alessio Cardillo

  5. GOTHAM Lab, Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    Alessio Cardillo

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

    Hugo Barbosa

  2. Dept de Fisica de la Materia Condensada, Univ de Zaragoza, Fac de Ciencias, Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    Jesus Gomez-Gardenes

  3. Center for Data Science, Inc., New York, NY, USA

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  4. University of Catania, Catania, Catania, Italy

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  5. Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

    Ronaldo Menezes

  6. Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany

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Macedo, M., Lotero, L., Cardillo, A., Barbosa, H., Menezes, R. (2020). Gender Patterns of Human Mobility in Colombia: Reexamining Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration. In: Barbosa, H., Gomez-Gardenes, J., Gonçalves, B., Mangioni, G., Menezes, R., Oliveira, M. (eds) Complex Networks XI. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40943-2_23

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