Sociological Images has a great post on the gendered way we drive, which they got from the book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says about Us) by Tom Vanderbilt. In short, once women have children they make more trips per day. Women work closer to home when compared to men who work in the same occupations, and men take longer trips to get to work.
For the researchers, this clearly meant women were doing the family driving. It also likely means that women make choices, knowingly or not, that put them at work closer to home. This is just another set of data that reinforces a common point: Women make choices that take their families into account.
That doesn't mean that men don't. I'd just say that, with men, the choices they make regarding their families take on an equally gendered hue and say a lot about what it means to be a man and have a family in our society. That said, it's long-past time for me to update you on a post I wrote a little more than week ago.
