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作者

来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.40,Issue1,P.82-97

语言

英文

关键字

WOMEN; TRANSPORT; TRAVEL

作者单位

[Hudson, Christine] Umea Univ, Umea, Sweden. Hudson, C (reprint author), Umea Univ, Dept Polit Sci, SE-90187 Umea, Sweden. E-Mail: christine.hudson@umu.se

摘要

This article focuses on the centrality of women's mobility in relation to urban citizenship and how this is influenced by underlying gender relations. A theoretical framework is developed concerning mobility, citizenship, and the gender contract. Focusing on the Swedish situation, the relationship between gender, domestic work, and commuting is discussed. Drawing on theories concerning mobility and the concept of the gender contract and using the findings from a questionnaire survey, these issues are explored in two Swedish city-regions, Goteborg and Umea. The focus is on whether, when both in a couple are in paid employment and commute, a more egalitarian gender contract develops where the unpaid domestic work is shared more equally. The study concludes that, irrespective of commuting, there continues to be a traditional gender contract in which, despite being in paid employment, the woman continues to be responsible for the brunt of the unpaid domestic labor, with the exception of tasks relating to child-care, where responsibility is more equally shared between both parents, reflecting a strong norm in Swedish society where fathers are also expected to be actively involved with their children.