| List of Figures and Tables | xi |
| About the Editors | xiii |
| About the Authors | xiv |
| Acknowledgements | xxii |
| Chapter 1: Introduction | |
| Tessa Wright, Lucy Budd and Stephen Ison | 1 |
| Public Transport |
| Chapter 2: Women and Work in Public Transport: Historical and Contemporary Evidence | |
| Corinne Mulley | 11 |
| Chapter 3: Current Trends in Gender, Work and Transport: An Island Perspective | |
| Maria Attard and Loukas Dimitriou | 23 |
| Chapter 4: Tackling Gender-based Violence and Sexual Harassment in the Public Transport Sector: The Role of Key Actors | |
| Anne Kamau and Tessa Wright | 37 |
| Road Transport, Active Travel and Logistics |
| Chapter 5: Experiences of Women Workers in the African Road Transport Sector | |
| Gina Porter and Nyaboke Omwega | 55 |
| Chapter 6: MotherTruckers? The Gendered Work of Freight and Logistics | |
| Debbie Hopkins and Nihan Akyelken | 71 |
| Chapter 7: Walking, Cycling and Gendered Journeys of Working Lives | |
| Jennifer Bonham and Barbara Koth | 87 |
| Rail Transport |
| Chapter 8: Women Leaders in Rail: A Postfeminist Aesthetic Femininity | |
| Kathryn Thory | 105 |
| Chapter 9: Gender Realities in Indian Railways | 123 |
| Leena Sachdeva | |
| Chapter 10: Bullying and Harassment in the British Rail Sector: An Intersectional Analysis | |
| Hazel Conley, Mostak Ahamed and Tessa Wright | 139 |
| Air Transport |
| Chapter 11: Negotiating Personal and Professional Identities in the Workplace: The Case of Women Ab Initio Airline Pilots | |
| Faye McCarthy, Lucy Budd and Stephen Ison | 157 |
| Chapter 12: Relational Mentoring in the Aviation and Aerospace Industry: Meeting Women’s Needs Through the Alta Mentoring Scheme | |
| Susan Durbin, Ana Lopes, Stella Warren and Judith Milne | 169 |
| Chapter 13: Examining the Culture of Women in Aviation Leadership: A Case of UK Airports | |
| Amarachi Amaugo | 189 |
| Chapter 14: Fostering Women’s Resilience in the Aviation Sector | |
| Stephanie Douglas | 207 |
| MARITIME TRANSPORT |
| Chapter 15: Gender and Work within the Maritime Sector | |
| Momoko Kitada | 229 |
| Chapter 16: ‘If God had Wanted You to Go to Sea …’ Experiences of Women Seafarers | |
| Marie Grasmeier | 249 |
| Chapter 17: Closing the Gender Gap in the Maritime Industry: A Career-decision Approach | |
| Heather McLaughlin and Colm Fearon | 265 |
| Chapter 18: Tracking Gender Equality in Ports | |
| Sisangile Nduna and Christa Sys | 279 |
| Governance and Trade Unions |
| Chapter 19: The Role of Government and the Transport Sector with respect to Women Working in Transport | |
| Hebba Haddad, Jo Field and Alex Bennett | 305 |
| Chapter 20: Trade Unions and Organising Women in Civil Aviation | |
| Jocelyn Finniear, Mrinalini Greedharry and Geraint Harvey | 323 |
| Chapter 21: ‘Not Like Other Women’: Understanding the Barriers for Women in the Transport Sector and the Role of Trade Unions | |
| Dalila Mahdawi and Jodi Evans | 339 |
| Index | 357 |