jordan pulse -
The Secretary-General of the Ministry of Transport, Wissam Al-Tahtamoni, announced the ministry's intention to launch the "Mowasalatti" application soon, through which information, opinions and observations regarding public transport services in Jordan are collected. Services are evaluated for improvement and performance indicators are updated.
Al-Tahtamoni, during her participation in a workshop organized remotely by the World Bank Group, on women's economic empowerment: the role of public transport and active transport, on Monday, stated that the Ministry of Transport "has begun implementing a set of projects to enhance women's efforts, including rehabilitating departure and arrival centers and providing them with lighting." And surveillance cameras to make it safer.” And the rapid-frequency bus project between Amman and Zarqa, and inside Amman, and the urban transport project in the cities of Irbid and Zarqa.
She said that public transportation in Jordan "constitutes an obsession that haunts women's daily lives, as many women refuse to work, and some of them prefer to withdraw from the labor market due to the lack of a public transportation system capable of meeting their needs."
She pointed out that the economic participation rate of women in Jordan out of the total workforce reached only 16%, "which makes it one of the lowest rates in the world."
She drew attention to studies that showed that 47% of the women surveyed in Jordan "refused a job opportunity due to the current state of the public transportation system, as a result of some major challenges in using transportation means, including its lack of effective availability, the time it takes to reach, and the weak ability of women to afford Cost compared to income, in addition to other cultural and social determinants.
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