A great number of studies concerning the developing countries have adopted a gender oriented approach. They have showed evidence that women should be taken more into account in the development programmes, as until now they have been largely ignored because of the lack of visibility of their own activities and needs. The aim of this paper is to show the heterogeneity of women concerning their activities and transport needs. The two cities studied are: Bamako (Mali) and Ouagadougou (Bourkina Fassa). The main results of these analyses refer to the influence of the household and family responsibilities in women's daily mobility and to the necessity to develop the public urban services as a whole, not only public transport, as to improve the living conditions of women. The English title of the paper is: "The various faces of women's mobility in the cities of Sub-Saharan Africa."
Samenvatting