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

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Rural transportation--Developing countries.
Rural transit--Government policy--Developing countries.
Women--Transportation--Developing countries.

HE316.D44 / B35 2002

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