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id: "govlab:project/project-gender-and-urban-mobility-in-chile"
type: "GovLab project"
title: "Gender and Urban Mobility in Chile"
url: "https://thegovlab.org/project/project-gender-and-urban-mobility-in-chile"
authors: ["Michelle Winowatan","Hannah Pierce","Andrew Young"]
summary: "How can we leverage data collaboratives to make urban transportation planning more gender-inclusive?"
source: "The GovLab (thegovlab.org)"
licence: "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)"
---

# Gender and Urban Mobility in Chile

How can we leverage data collaboratives to make urban transportation planning more gender-inclusive?

## Background

Close to 90% of Chile’s population lives in urban areas, with 40% living in Santiago alone. Like many other South American cities, Santiago continues to expand, which puts pressure on vulnerable populations, who must travel greater distances to work, study and live. Although private car ownership is projected to grow in the coming years, women are more likely to be traveling on foot than men–40% of women travel by foot in Santiago, as opposed to 30% of men.

## Description

Over the course of a year-long study, The GovLab and its project partners established a data collaborative to seek answers to the following questions:

## Location

- Latin America

## Partners

- UNICEF
- Universidad del Desarrollo/Telefónica R&D Center
- ISI Foundation
- DigitalGlobe
- Telefonica

## Team

- [Michelle Winowatan](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#michelle-winowatan)
- [Hannah Pierce](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#hannah-pierce)
- [Andrew Young](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#andrew-young)

## Additional resources

- [Gender and Urban Mobility: Addressing Unequal Access to Urban Transportation for Women and Girls](http://thegovlab.org/gender-and-urban-mobility-addressing-unequal-access-to-urban-transportation-for-women-and-girls/)
- [Selected Readings on Data, Gender, and Mobility](https://thelivinglib.org/selected-readings-on-data-gender-and-mobility/)