08/03/2026
This year's International Women's Day theme — Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls — is a call to dismantle the structural barriers that limit women's lives. 🚺
Road safety rarely features in that conversation. But it should.
The streets women move through every day are shaped by structural choices: whose needs are centred in design, whose safety is prioritised, and whose experience is treated as the default.
The numbers tell part of the story. On a per-crash basis, women are significantly more likely than men to be killed or seriously injured. They are more likely to be hit as pedestrians or passengers. They rely more heavily on public transport, yet don't feel safe using it. 📊
Without gender-disaggregated road safety data, we can't understand the scale of the problem — let alone fix it.
Gender equity and road safety are not separate agendas. Safer streets are a public health goal, a sustainability goal, and a gender equity goal.
Progress on one depends on progress on all three.
Read the full editorial here: https://eaprso.org/news-and-events/editorial-who-are-our-streets-built-for-the-need-for-gender-disaggregated-road-safety-data/
