The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis
The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis
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非洲运输部门女工的生活经历：阿布贾、开普敦和突尼斯的反思
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10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103695
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Porter G
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Porter G
本文借鉴了2019-2022年在阿布贾、开普敦和突尼斯三个不同城市地区进行的民族志研究，以了解妇女在道路运输部门工作的生活经历。在非洲，男性身份与机动性之间的联系是普遍存在的，运输部门的行为者很少质疑这种联系。女性仍然在很大程度上缺席了这个故事，至少部分受到女性气质的霸权规范和阻止女性进入的“情感氛围”的限制。然而，在非洲各地，偶尔也有妇女敢于破坏这种男性主义企业的情况，无论是作为雇员还是企业家。这项研究主要利用对那些面对顾客的人（出租车和公共汽车司机、公共汽车售票员）的深入访谈，探讨和比较了女性运输工人的日常经历。此外，还咨询了相关的公共部门组织和主要的运输业雇主，与社区男女团体组成的焦点小组探讨了他们对受雇为运输工人的妇女的态度，并与女学生一起调查了她们的职业抱负和对该部门就业的看法。最后一节展望了COVID-19后的未来。虽然妇女偶尔会有新的机会，但她们需要更多的支持，不仅是在技能培训方面，而且还需要通过灵活的工作机会、工会的承认和行动、小额供资和财务管理培训。这一支持对于扩大女性运输工人的可见度，从而使更广泛的运输环境不再是男性占压倒性优势，而是更加欢迎女性运输用户至关重要。
This paper draws on ethnographic research conducted 2019–2022 in three quite diverse city regions - Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis - to understand women's lived experiences of work in the road transport sector. The strength of connection between male identity and motor-mobility in Africa is ubiquitous and has rarely been questioned by transport sector actors. Women are still largely absent from the story, constrained at least partly by hegemonic norms of femininity and an ‘affective atmosphere’ that deters female entry. However, there are occasional cases across Africa where women have dared to disrupt this masculinist enterprise, either as employees or entrepreneurs. This study explores and compares women transport workers' everyday experiences, drawing principally on in-depth interviews with those in customer-facing roles (taxi and bus drivers, bus conductors). Relevant public sector organisations and major transport employers were also consulted, while focus groups with community groups of men and women explored their attitudes to women employed as transport workers, and with school-girls investigated their career aspirations and views regarding employment in the sector. A final section looks to the future, post-COVID-19. Although new opportunities occasionally emerge for women, they need much more support, not only in terms of skills training, but also through flexible working opportunities, union recognition and action, microfinance and financial management training. This support is essential in order to expand the visibility of women transport workers and thus make the wider transport milieu less overwhelmingly male and more welcoming to women transport users.
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