Balancing the load : women, gender, and transport /
edited by Priyanthi Fernando and Gina Porter.
- London ; New York : Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palegrave, a division of St. Martin's Press, 2002.
- 291 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-277) and index.
1.Introduction -- 2.Social exclusion and rural transports -- 3.Intermediate means of transport and gender relations-- 4.Do intermediate means of transport reach rural women-- 5.Bicycles : Boda Boda and women's travel needs-- 6.Gender and safety in rural transport-- 7.Bridges the impact on travel and market-- 8.Feeder roads and food security -- 9.Off-road areas : a gender perspective on transport and accessibility-- 10.Road rehabilitation the impact on transport-- 11.Gender needs and access to rural transport -- 12.Women's empowerment and physical mobility-- 13.Cycling into the future: the pudukkottai experience-- 14.Women, water and transportation mapping the interplay-- 15.A forest economy and women's transportation-- 16.My daily odyssey transportation in the lives of SEWA bank clients-- 17.From dawn to dusk : transportation of rural women to and from the metropolis-- 18.Gender and rural transport development-- 19.Transport in the mountains and the Terai-- 20.Cash crops and transport : cashew growing and processing