NDLI: Women’s complex daily lives: a gendered look at trip chaining and activity pattern entropy in Germany

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Scheiner, Joachim Holz Rau, Christian
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	It has long been argued in feminist studies that women’s daily lives are more complex than men’s. This is largely due to the gendered division of work, according to which women juggle more varied obligations, including employment, household work and caregiving. Complex activity patterns in turn encourage women to organise their trips in a more efficient manner in trip chains. This paper studies the complexity of activity patterns (measured by Shannon entropy) and trip chaining patterns from a gender specific perspective. The data used is the German Mobility Panel 1994–2012 which records respondents’ trips over the period of a week. The outcome variables are regressed on sociodemographics, residential and workplace spatial context attributes, cohort and period effects. Gender differences in the effects of variables are tested using interaction terms. The results suggest that women’s patterns are more complex than men’s. Some effects differed distinctly between men and women, suggesting that men and women are differently affected by circumstances impacting the complexity of their lives, most notably by having children and by having a partner.
Starting Page	117
Ending Page	138
Page Count	22
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00494488
Journal	Transportation
Volume Number	44
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15729435
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2015-06-10
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Activity pattern Gender Trip chain Tour complexity Travel behaviour Entropy Regional/Spatial Science Economic Geography Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing Innovation/Technology Management
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Development Transportation Civil and Structural Engineering

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