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Mind the Data Gap: Why Transport Needs a Gender Dimension
The eye-opening book ‘Invisible Women’ by Caroline Criado Perez put the spotlight on the gender data gap. Its detailed analysis how this gap affects us - and can harm women - all over the world and in all areas of our lives, made a lasting impact on many of us. Transport is an important part of everyday life and an enabler in many ways: it gets us to our work places and back, delivers kids to school and enables day-to-day living.
In this panel discussion we shine a light on the consequences the gender data gap in transport has on women’s lives, look at what is being done to address this and come away with concrete steps, action items, recommendations and resources. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and learn from our experts.
The session is moderated by Sandra Witzel, co-founder of Women in Mobility UK and CMO and Board Director at SkedGo. It is hosted by Sarah Wray, Editor at Cities Today. The session will be recorded and available to view on demand.
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Speakers
Dr. Laila AitBihiOuali
Transportation Research Group
University of Southampton
Dr. Laila AitBihiOuali is an assistant professor in the Transportation Research Group of the University of Southampton, UK. Her interdisciplinary research focuses namely on mobility barriers, gender and policy evaluation. She is namely interested in creating methodological innovations at the intersection of Machine Learning, Econometrics, Causal Inference, and Psychology to address challenging questions in travel/consumer behaviour modelling.
From her 7 years of experience in academia (Imperial College London, LSE, PSE, AMSE) and institutions (NIC, World Bank), she has undertaken projects which aim to improve both transport appraisal and ex-post assessments of performance using causal inference and state-of-the-art econometrics.
She also serves regularly as a referee for Transportation Research Part A, Journal of Transport, Economics and Policy, PlosOne and International Economics.
Hannah Bougdah
Hannah Bougdah has worked at the Department for Transport for over three years as a statistician. Hannah heads up the statistics dissemination team and leads on developing and implementing the strategy for sharing and publishing transport statistics for the general public across the Department.
Hannah is also part of the gender equality network at the department and after reading the Invisible Women book, set up an internal panel event to discuss the gender data gap in transport and what policy makers can do to address this.
Kelly Saunders
Kelly Saunders is a gender and mobility expert. Her work is informed by ten years in senior legal and commercial roles with Group SNCF in Europe and Australia, as well as public policy roles in the Victorian government in Australia.
Kelly works with operators, international organisations and governments to rethink the relationship between transport and gender. She works with clients including the World Bank, SNCF, Arup and Transport Infrastructure Ireland to improve women's mobility around personal safety and the 'mobility of care'; understand the drivers for modal shift and decarbonisation; incorporate gender-sensitivity into system design and operations; build gender equality into tender proposals and operator HR practices.
Kelly is currently doing a PhD scholarship at the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation at Canberra University in Australia. Her research is focused on new visions for gender, work and care.
Laura Brooks
Laura Brooks is a young transportation professional based in Manchester, England with 4.5 years’ experience as a transport planner.
Inspired by the book Invisible Women, Laura alongside Molly Hoggard and Marie Godward, Laura co-created the Gender Equality Toolkit in Transport (GET-IT). The GET-IT recently won the Future Transport Vision Group (FTVG)’s Outstanding Project Award.
Laura’s efforts promoting the toolkit have facilitated a greater appreciation and awareness of gender equality as an issue within both her employer (WSP) and across UK transportation with Laura facilitating both workshops and presentations for a range of key stakeholders and groups to encourage gender mainstreaming.