Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyze women's travel issues in the context of women's changing social status. As formal education and employment have been added to the domestic responsibilities expected of women, many feel they must run faster just to stay in place. In the past, being a wife and mother was the constant in a woman's life and employment was a variable. But now paid work has become a necessity for most women and their marriage and childbearing decisions are more flexible. Because in some ways women's lives are becoming similar to men's, while in other ways they remain very different, this paper describes why women's and men's travel patterns both converge and contrast. By understanding how women's travel is embedded in its social context, transportation planners may be able to accomplish more for women than just adjusting the timing of traffic lights.
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