Pkw-Nutzung im Wandel des Geschlechterverhältnisses – Trends über drei Jahrzehnte
This paper aims at answering the question, how the usage of cars both of men and women has changed in Germany in the context of changing gender relations during the last decades. Moreover, gender-specific differences in car usage are pointed out and their root causes are analysed based on German Tr...
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This paper aims at answering the question, how the usage of cars both of men and women has changed in Germany in the context of changing gender relations during the last decades. Moreover, gender-specific differences in car usage are pointed out and their root causes are analysed based on German Travel Survey data. This is achieved by tracing the development of gender-specific car usage between 1976 and 2008 and interpreting the trends identified in a wider context of societal changes. The analyses conducted give results on whether gender-specific car usage results from social roles (e. g. labour participation), restrictions (e. g. lower car availability of women), economically rational household decisions on the car as a restricted resource, or gender-specific preferences. Beyond that it is shown how car usage has changed with respect to men and women with different characteristics (e. g. household motorization, labour participation, household type, municipality size). The results given in the paper show that convergence of men’s and women’s car usage predominantly results from an increasing women’s car usage. Regarding households where the number of drivers exceeds the number of available cars, i. e. the available cars are shared, we find a re-allocation of the scarce resource car between men and women. Yet, this trend varies: For example, women’s car usage increases stronger in small and in medium municipalities than in big cities. Furthermore, the results hint at gender-specific preferences: Even under very similar conditions such as full-time employment and unrestricted car availability, women use the car less often than men.
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| spelling | doaj.art-7771949266dc4cb7877fc41fa4dd784d2022-12-22T03:50:55Zdeuoekom verlag GmbHRaumforschung und Raumordnung0034-01111869-41792016-08-0174410.1007/s13147-016-0405-8Pkw-Nutzung im Wandel des Geschlechterverhältnisses – Trends über drei JahrzehnteKathrin Konrad0Joachim Scheiner1Christian Holz-Rau2Forschungsgruppe Alltagsmobilität und Verkehrssysteme, ILS Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung gGmbH, Brüderweg 22–24, 44135, Dortmund, DeutschlandFachgebiet Verkehrswesen und Verkehrsplanung, Technische Universität Dortmund, August-Schmidt-Straße 10, 44221, Dortmund, DeutschlandFachgebiet Verkehrswesen und Verkehrsplanung, Technische Universität Dortmund, August-Schmidt-Straße 10, 44221, Dortmund, Deutschland This paper aims at answering the question, how the usage of cars both of men and women has changed in Germany in the context of changing gender relations during the last decades. Moreover, gender-specific differences in car usage are pointed out and their root causes are analysed based on German Travel Survey data. This is achieved by tracing the development of gender-specific car usage between 1976 and 2008 and interpreting the trends identified in a wider context of societal changes. The analyses conducted give results on whether gender-specific car usage results from social roles (e. g. labour participation), restrictions (e. g. lower car availability of women), economically rational household decisions on the car as a restricted resource, or gender-specific preferences. Beyond that it is shown how car usage has changed with respect to men and women with different characteristics (e. g. household motorization, labour participation, household type, municipality size). The results given in the paper show that convergence of men’s and women’s car usage predominantly results from an increasing women’s car usage. Regarding households where the number of drivers exceeds the number of available cars, i. e. the available cars are shared, we find a re-allocation of the scarce resource car between men and women. Yet, this trend varies: For example, women’s car usage increases stronger in small and in medium municipalities than in big cities. Furthermore, the results hint at gender-specific preferences: Even under very similar conditions such as full-time employment and unrestricted car availability, women use the car less often than men. https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/517Car useGender relationMobility trendsPreferencesMotorization |
| spellingShingle | Kathrin Konrad Joachim Scheiner Christian Holz-Rau Pkw-Nutzung im Wandel des Geschlechterverhältnisses – Trends über drei Jahrzehnte Raumforschung und Raumordnung Car use Gender relation Mobility trends Preferences Motorization |
| title | Pkw-Nutzung im Wandel des Geschlechterverhältnisses – Trends über drei Jahrzehnte |
| title_full | Pkw-Nutzung im Wandel des Geschlechterverhältnisses – Trends über drei Jahrzehnte |
| title_fullStr | Pkw-Nutzung im Wandel des Geschlechterverhältnisses – Trends über drei Jahrzehnte |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pkw-Nutzung im Wandel des Geschlechterverhältnisses – Trends über drei Jahrzehnte |
| title_short | Pkw-Nutzung im Wandel des Geschlechterverhältnisses – Trends über drei Jahrzehnte |
| title_sort | pkw nutzung im wandel des geschlechterverhaltnisses trends uber drei jahrzehnte |
| topic | Car use Gender relation Mobility trends Preferences Motorization |
| url | https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/517 |
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