Safe and Sound: International Research on Women's Personal Safety on Public Transport
2016
This report from the FIA Foundation summarizes global research on women's safety while using public transportation. Findings showed that women and girls frequently experience both physical and verbal harassment while using public transport around the world, but tend to underreport their incidence. Men often underestimate the scale of these experiences among women, or attribute it to social norms around gender. Additionally, levels of security are often poor when transportation is highly crowded, and women tended to perceive traveling to and from transport stations to be particularly unsafe. Taken together, these factors impair women's mobility and participation in the labor force, contributing to poverty, inequality, and social exclusion. In addition to describing the extent of women's safety concerns, this report also provides recommendations for solutions and discusses potential ways to build capacities in countries to improve gender-related policies.
Safe and Sound: International Research on Women's Personal Safety on Public Transport
Source:
Safe and Sound: International Research on Women’s Personal Safety on Public Transport. FIA Foundation 2016. https://www.fiafoundation.org/resources/safe-and-sound.