GENDER, RACE, AND TRAVEL BEHAVIOR: AN ANALYSIS OF HOUSEHOLD-SERVING TRAVEL AND COMMUTING IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
This paper examines how the division of household responsibilities shapes the travel behavior of men and women. In particular, the authors focus on the influence of socioeconomic factors-gender, race/ethnicity, income, and household structure-in shaping household-serving travel patterns. Using travel data from the San Francisco Bay Area they find that women are, on average, disproportionately responsible for child-serving and household maintenance travel, and that white, Hispanic, and low income women tend to be, on average, especially burdened with household maintenance responsibilities. They find further that the women's household-serving travel patterns appear to be a function of both socialization and the sexual division of household responsibilities. They see evidence of socialization in the distinctly gendered grocery shopping patterns observed in single adult households with no children. And they find evidence of the sexual division of household labor in the increasing burden of household-serving travel at each stage in the life cycle and robustness of the gender variable in multivariate models of child-serving travel during the journey-to-work.
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Corporate Authors:
University of Arizona, Tucson
Drachman Institute, 819 E First Street
Tucson, AZ United States 85721Morgan State University
1700 East Cold Spring Lane
Baltimore, MD United States 21251Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Taylor, B D
- Mauch, M
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Conference:
- Women's Travel Issues Second National Conference
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Date: 1996-10-0 to 1996-10-0
- Publication Date: 1998-7-30
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: 34p
- Monograph Title: WOMEN'S TRAVEL ISSUES: PROCEEDINGS FROM THE SECOND NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Children; Commuting; Ethnic groups; Females; Gender; Hispanics; Households; Income; Males; Race; Shopping; Socioeconomic factors; Travel behavior; Whites; Work trips
- Uncontrolled Terms: Division of labor
- Geographic Terms: San Francisco Bay Area
- Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00927496
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Jul 3 2002 12:00AM