- 5 States Where Women Barely Dare to Bike Commute
April Streeter, 4 October 2009, Sweden: TreeHugger - Cars & Transportation
The American Community Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau has been out for about two weeks, and if you can figure out how to look at the tables, it tells an interesting story about bike commuting. The Census doesn't collect bike use data per se, but it does periodically survey which type of vehicle or method people use to get to their jobs, and as biking is one of those methods, we can get a snapshot of how many dedicated bike commuters there are in the U.S. The good news? Dedicated bike commuting is grew about 38% in the last eight years. But if women are truly the indicator species for a successful bike infrastructure, lots of states aren't getting it right.
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- How Can You Tell If Your City is Bikeable? Hint: Count the Women
Kristin Underwood, 2 October 2009, USA: TreeHugger - Cars & Transportation (bikes)What does it take to make a city bike friendly? Bike lanes? Isolated bike lanes? More bikes than cars? All of the above? In a recent article by Scientific American, the indicator species for determining how bikeable a city is is...women, and particularly the number of women on bikes. In European cities, male to female biking ratios are nearly equal, so why are men two times more likely to hop on a bike?
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Visit Site - Increasing Bike Ridership Means Pulling in Women
Nate Berg, 22 September 2009, Planetizen
In the U.S., men bike far more than women. Some researchers suggest that understanding and meeting the demands of women is the best way to increase overall ridership.
Visit Site - Luna Chix: Badass Babes on Bikes
Kristin Underwood, 14 September 2009, USA: TreeHugger - Travel & Nature (sports gear)
At this year's Wanderlust Festival, I got a chance to sit down with Karen Rehder, rider for Luna Chix and talk about bikes, babes and being a bad-ass. Here is how Luna is helping Chicks across the United States get off their butts and onto bikes.
Visit Site - Bike Belles: Sustrans Raises its Voice for Female Cycle Safety
Sami Grover, 10 September 2009, USA: TreeHugger - bikes
In a world where cyclists get shot for riding with their children, there is no doubt that personal safety is a major concern for all cyclists. But it's probably fair to say that women bare the brunt of this particular issue. April has argued before that the world needs more women on bikes (although some commenters felt her reasoning was a touch condescending), and she's also explored the question of whether women cyclists need to arm themselves. Now a UK charity is raising its voice for better protection for female cyclists. Will you join the call?
Visit Site - Mind the Gender Gap
Sarah Goodyear, 1 July 2009, StreetsBlog.Network
Yesterday's New York Times blog item about why New York women are underrepresented among the city's bike commuters didn't sit well with the authors of Streetsblog Network member Let's Go Ride a Bike. Trisha, one of the blog's authors and a bike commuter herself in Nashville, sees the piece as part of a trend (epitomized by a recent Treehugger post called "6 Reasons the World Needs More Girls on Bikes").
Visit Site - In Urban Cycling, a Gender Gap Persist
Dominick Tao, 30 June 2009, New York Times City Room
While things have changed over the past several years, with cycling rates on the rise and hundreds of miles of new bike lanes being installed around the city, the gender gap among cyclists in New York and elsewhere in America still remains.
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Women in Cycling
