Convergence or divergence? Changing gender differences in commuting in two Swedish urban regions

Gender, mobility and parental shares of daily travel with and for children: a cross-national time use comparison

“…Women are still widely expected by both themselves and others to be responsible for housework and for meeting the physical and emotional needs of their spouse and children (Bianchi & Milkie, 2010;Goldin, 2014). Thus although deciding who ferries children around may seem like a practical private matter to be arranged between couples, it is imbued with gendered social norms (Schwanen, 2007;Solá & Vilhelmson, 2012). These norms inform large choices as well as small.…”

Who and where are the flexible workers? Exploring the current diffusion of telework in Sweden

“…At the same time, the spatial separation between home and work, i.e. commuting distance, continues to increase (Gil Solá and Vilhelmson, ). In this dynamic context, telework has been expected to be advantageous for several reasons: to save time and improve the work–life balance of families, reduce physical transportation and urban congestion, cut pollution and energy use, save office space, create job opportunities, attract qualified workers and spark economic growth in remote regions (see e.g.…”

Transport geography in Sweden

“…Other recent work by mobility geographers at the University of Gothenburg focuses on long-term trends and trend breaks in daily and transnational mobility by gender, age, and cohort in Sweden Vilhelmson, 2011, 2014;Gil Solá and Vilhelmson, 2012). A similar approach is used in an analysis of exceptional longitudinal data collected in a different context, a rural area of the Philippines (e.g., Olsson, 2009Olsson, , 2012) -notably, one of the few contemporary Swedish studies not treating Sweden or Swedes.…”