UC Irvine Institute of Transportation Studies

In sum, my results show that household type, race and housing tenure influence males and females differently. I find that the presence of children contributes to the gender difference in commuting more for whites and for two-worker households than for other groups. However, the effects of the presence of children are not significant on both male and female commuting distances. In fact, I find that two-worker household males behave differently from two-worker household females, and that two-worker household females behave differently from single-worker household females. I also find that there are sharper gender differences among whites than among nonwhites, a conclusion similar to that of Mclafferty and Preston (1991). Finally, I find that housing tenure seems to strongly influence the commuting distances of males, nonwhites, and workers from two-worker households.