Comments on: Making Our Communities Work For Us; Women and the Political Process http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2012/08/making-our-communities-work-for-us-women-and-the-political-process/ Blog for bikeleague Thu, 23 May 2013 04:11:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Khal Spencer http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2012/08/making-our-communities-work-for-us-women-and-the-political-process/comment-page-1/#comment-36690 Khal Spencer Sat, 18 Aug 2012 12:40:30 +0000 http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/?p=10145#comment-36690 From the abstract at the link (below), it would seem that women are represented on these committees (24%) in about the right proportion to their ridership numbers you state above (24%). That sounds fair to me. BACs should represent the demographics of the ridership community.

Besides, sheer numbers don’t necessarily tell the whole story. It certainly would help if women of the firepower of the panelists and facilitator above stepped forward in their communities. From what I have seen on several BACs, it sometimes feels like pulling teeth to get highly qualified members of either sex to take the time to sit on these often tedious committees, especially in a community where the BAC has no real teeth. In their moments of free time, busy people (highly qualified people are often pretty busy) would prefer to actually ride their bikes.

http://transweb.sjsu.edu/project/1034.html

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