Women's participation in transport research and innovation

AuthorHaq, G.; Ortega Hortelano, A.; Tsakalidis, A.; Gkoumas, K.; Pekár, F.; Balen, M. van; Grosso, M.
Pages18-29
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4 Women's participation in transport research and innovation
This section analyses the presence and the characteristics o f women in the transport sector, by exami ning R&I
activities. After a brief introduction on the general presence of women in the transport sector, the section
focuses on the participation of women in R&I projects and on the analysis of research-related occupation and
tasks of women in transport.
4.1 Women ‘s presence in the transport sector and in the research domain
Figure 10 shows the gender differences in each transport s ub-sectors (land, water, air, warehousing and
supporting activities) in 2018. Women are significantly underrepresented in the land transport sector, 6.2 males
for every female employee, while in the air transport sector women represent almost 44% of the e mployed
people.
Figure 10. Gender differentiation in the European transport sector (%, 2018)
Source: European Commission, Eurostat-Labour Force Survey (2018b).
Despite EC efforts to o vercome gender differences, no major i mprovement can be observed from 2008 to
20188. In this period, there was a slight increase in women employed in all the transport sub-sectors considered,
following the observed trend in the total economy which grew nonetheless at a higher rate (See Table 1).
However, some occupations are almost exclusively performed by men, for example, drivers of heavy trucks,
buses and trams, cars and taxis (European Commission, 2018).
(8) No major differences were observed in the pre-crisis period, nor during or after it.

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