{"id":2283,"date":"2022-01-05T13:16:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T12:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2022-01-05T13:16:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T12:16:42","slug":"table-ronde-cycling-through-gendered-lives-exploring-the-link-between-structural-gender-inequalities-gender-norms-and-mobility-practices-in-japan-and-beyond-ffj-de-lehess-20-21-janvier-202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/?p=2283","title":{"rendered":"Table-ronde \/ \u00ab\u00a0Cycling through gendered lives: exploring the link between structural gender inequalities, gender norms and mobility practices in Japan and beyond\u00a0\u00bb (FFJ de l’EHESS, 20-21 janvier 2022, 10h-12h45)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u00ab\u00a0Cycling through gendered lives: exploring the link between structural gender inequalities, gender norms and mobility practices in Japan and beyond\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>\u00a0
January 20 and 21<\/strong>
from 10:00 to 12:45 in France and from 18:00 to 20:45 in Japan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cycling through gendered lives: exploring the link between structural gender inequalities, gender norms and mobility practices in Japan and beyond<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Women remain strongly underrepresented among cyclists in Western cities (Pucher, John; Buehler, Ralph 2012). Past studies exploring barriers to women cycling have reached two conclusions. First, women would not cycle as much as men because they would be more risk-averse ; second, unequally shared domestic responsibilities would make their mobilities too complex to cycle (Ravensbergen, L\u00e9a; Buliung, Ron; Lalibert\u00e9, Nicole 2019). Women would thus be more likely to cycle where secured infrastructure is provided, and where domestic tasks are equally shared between men and women (Prati, Gabriele; Fraboni, Federico; De Angelis, Marco; Pietrantoni, Luca; Johnson, Daniel; Shires, Jeremy 2019). However, these widely accepted results, based on concurring Western studies, do not hold in the context of Tokyo.

In Tokyo, women represent the majority (57%) of cyclists (Goel, Rahul; Goodman, Anna; Aldred, Rachel; Nakamura, Ryota; Tatah, Lambed; Garcia, Leandro Martin Totaro; Zapata-Diomedi, Belen; de Sa, Thiago Herick; Tiwari, Geetam; de Nazelle, Audrey; Tainio, Marko; Buehler, Ralph; G\u00f6tschi, Thomas; Woodcock, James 2021) and cycling is overwhelmingly used for household-serving trips (TMATPC, 2018). Yet, Japan is marked by strong gender inequalities: Japanese women spend on average 23 hours per week on care and household chores, while men only spend 5 hours on these tasks (Cabinet Cabinet Office; Gender Equality Bureau 2016). Japanese women also face the largest wage gap in the world, and lack of welfare state support still encourages a lot of them to quit their job when they have a child (Shirahase, Sawako 2014). This case points to the complex links between women\u2019s mobilities and their position in society.

This workshop will explore the link between structural gender inequalities, cultural gender norms, and women\u2019s bicycling practices. Research works from around the world will be confronted to the \u201ccritical case\u201d (Flyvbjerg, Bent 2006) of Tokyo to identify ways forward for research on gender and cycling. To accommodate researchers from several different countries, and given the ongoing travel uncertainties associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, this workshop will be held online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n