IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/woemps/v20y2006i3p513-530.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Work-related travel, gender and family obligations

Author

Listed:
  • Per Gustafson

    (Uppsala University, Sweden, per.gustafson@ibf.uu.se)

Abstract

This article uses national travel surveys from Sweden to examine the relationship between family situation, sex and work-related overnight travel. The results indicate that family obligations have an impact on travel activity, but that women and men differ in this respect. Cohabiting men travel more than men living alone, whereas there is no such effect among women. Having young children reduces the travel activity of women, whereas there is no consistent such effect among men. However, regardless of family situation, men travel considerably more than women and this largely reflects women’s and men’s different positions in working life. It is therefore argued that the relationship between work-related travel and family obligations involves both individual adaptation and structural factors, such as a gender-segregated labour market and ‘gender-typing’ of travel as a predominantly male activity, all of which reflect traditional gender and family role expectations.

Suggested Citation

  • Per Gustafson, 2006. "Work-related travel, gender and family obligations," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 20(3), pages 513-530, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:20:y:2006:i:3:p:513-530
    DOI: 10.1177/0950017006066999
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0950017006066999
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0950017006066999?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Berg, Jessica & Levin, Lena & Abramsson, Marianne & Hagberg, Jan-Erik, 2014. "Mobility in the transition to retirement – the intertwining of transportation and everyday projects," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 38(C), pages 48-54.
    2. Willis, Cheryl & Ladkin, Adele & Jain, Juliet & Clayton, William, 2017. "Present whilst absent: Home and the business tourist gaze," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 48-59.
    3. Yen, Jin-Ru & Chen, Jing-Xuan, 2017. "Modelling the preference for business charter in the cross-strait market," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 64(PB), pages 151-160.
    4. Aguiléra, Anne & Proulhac, Laurent, 2015. "Socio-occupational and geographical determinants of the frequency of long-distance business travel in France," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 43(C), pages 28-35.
    5. Frändberg, Lotta & Vilhelmson, Bertil, 2011. "More or less travel: personal mobility trends in the Swedish population focusing gender and cohort," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 19(6), pages 1235-1244.
    6. Craig, Lyn & van Tienoven, Theun Pieter, 2019. "Gender, mobility and parental shares of daily travel with and for children: a cross-national time use comparison," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 93-102.
    7. Holma, Anne-Maria & Bask, Anu & Kauppi, Katri, 2015. "Ensuring corporate travel compliance – Control vs. commitment strategies," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 60-74.
    8. Caset, Freke & Boussauw, Kobe & Storme, Tom, 2018. "Meet & fly: Sustainable transport academics and the elephant in the room," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 64-67.
    9. Gustafson, Per, 2012. "Managing business travel: Developments and dilemmas in corporate travel management," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 33(2), pages 276-284.
    10. Unger, Orit & Uriely, Natan & Fuchs, Galia, 2016. "The business travel experience," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 142-156.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:20:y:2006:i:3:p:513-530. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.