Who’s in the driver’s seat? Gender and the division of car use in auto-deficit households

Evelyn Blumenberg, Andrew Schouten and Anne Brown

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2022, vol. 162, issue C, 14-26

Abstract: We examine the role of gender in access to household resources, in particular the household automobile. Drawing on data from the 2012 California Household Travel Survey, we isolate the determinants of vehicle use within dual-earner, dual-driver, heterosexual households in which drivers share a single vehicle. We test four gender-related hypotheses: the role of disparities in economic power, practical necessity related to the household division of labor, gender norms, and gender preferences.

Keywords: Car use; Gender; Auto-deficit households (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2022.05.017

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