Índice de caminhabilidade sensível a gênero: uma abordagem metodológica

Abstract

Currently, mobility support policies have focused on strategies that encourage walking, since it is the most basic, democratic and universal way of getting around. However, we must ask ourselves: is walking really that democratic? This research investigates one of the nuances of defining social roles that structure society: the perception of men and women, masculine and feminine, and their impositions of significance and meaning in walking around the city. The study aims to develop a Gender-Sensitive Walkability Index that reveals the experience of women walking around the city; to this end, it proposed an exploratory, qualitative and quantitative approach that considers stages of bibliographic review and field validation. The results indicate that the Perception of Safety is the most important factor in women's decisions about moving around, and it is often necessary for women to adjust routes, schedules, routes and behavior patterns that can help maintain their physical, psychological, sexual and moral integrity. As women are different and their relationship with the city is also intersectional, it was assessed how the conditions of space can interfere more or less in walking, which ended up ratifying the relative importance of criteria and indicators, forming an Index that evaluates, by default, not only the built environment, but the experience of those who, in fact, experience the city.