Journal
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-020-0500-x
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Funding
- Data2X Initiative through the Big Data for Gender Challenge Awards
- Movistar-Telefonica Chile
- Chilean government initiative [CORFO 13CEE2-21592, 2013-21592-1-INNOVA_PRODUCCION2013-21592-1]
- Conicyt PAI Networks [REDES170151]
- CRT Foundation through the Lagrange Project
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Mobile phone data have been extensively used to study urban mobility. However, studies based on gender-disaggregated large-scale data are still lacking, limiting our understanding of gendered aspects of urban mobility and our ability to design policies for gender equality. Here we study urban mobility from a gendered perspective, combining commercial and open datasets for the city of Santiago, Chile. We analyze call detail records for a large cohort of anonymized mobile phone users and reveal a gender gap in mobility: women visit fewer unique locations than men, and distribute their time less equally among such locations. Mapping this mobility gap over administrative divisions, we observe that a wider gap is associated with lower income and lack of public and private transportation options. Our results uncover a complex interplay between gendered mobility patterns, socio-economic factors and urban affordances, calling for further research and providing insights for policy-makers and urban planners.
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