Education and Awareness

Drivers for change:

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• Educate yourself. Gain an understanding of gender equality issues in the industry by researching the challenges and lived experiences of women as transport users.
   

• Listen, learn and discuss. Never underestimate the power of conversation. Begin conversations on this topic with people in the industry and listen to different people's viewpoints and ideas. Share this toolkit and the resources it contains with people you know in the industry.
   

• Adopt an intersectional lens when considering gender equality. Intersectionality allows us to recognise and understand that women are not a homogenous group and will all have different lived experiences of discrimination, oppression and disadvantage because of their unique social identities. Without adopting an intersectional lens when tackling gender equality, we will not see and understand the ways in which inequalities are interlinked, causing them to be continually perpetuated.  
   

• Tackle unconscious bias and avoid making assumptions. As transport professionals we can often make assumptions or decisions based on our own experiences or what we perceive others to experience. To stop this we must become aware of and overcome our own unconscious bias.
   

• Challenge the status quo and business as usual. To address this challenge we need to transition away from business as usual. We must challenge the status quo to ensure that gender is considered in all of the work that the sector carries out.