I have joined this group for two reasons: one , because I am interested in the environment and gendered responses to those issues; and two, because I am currently involved, via the University of East London (England), in a piece of research for the British Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, to produce a 'Gender Audit' for transport: a checklist for the use of policy makers and transport operators to use to assess their policies and services against women's needs. The emphasis is on the encouragement of public transport, walking and cycling; it is definitely *not* about making cars more attractive. Professor Kerry Hamilton and I have a website for the project, which everyone is of course most welcome to visit: http://www.women-and-transport.net/ It has a discussion group site, which everyone is also welcome to use; but I am not trying to poach exchanges away from here! What I would like to know is what anyone knows about gendered studies of transport. Kerry Hamilton has done some work in the UK, and there are a few other sources, but it would seem that overall it is not a subject which has had the attention it deserves (and which she and I are giving it now). I have for example been searching the Internet for gender and the environment, and development, and have found virtually nothing about transport (a lot of useful stuff on gender analysis, of course). So--can anyone help? Susan Hoyle
