ABSTRACT
Sweden is currently putting a great deal of effort into discussions regarding how gender equality can be achieved in the transport sector. This is due to a political strategy that began in 2001, with the addition of a gender equality subsidiary goal to Swedish transport policy. In the five years since the goal was put into effect, there has been a great deal of discussion and debate regarding what a gender equal transport system entails, the relevance of the goal for the sector, and how it can be achieved in practice. However, despite such groundbreaking political support and the five years within which actions could have been initiated, there has been little concrete change in the distribution of power between women and men, with only limited support for research that aims at understanding the role of gender in the sector, and few concrete strategies to address gender equality. The government’s recent proposition, Modern Transport, released in March 2006, has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to gender equality with a new emphasis on the relation of gender equality to the other transport political goals and by renewed commitment to equal representation (Prop. 2005/2006:155).
