The COVID-19 Pandemic and Changing Nature of Work: What Do They Mean for Gender Gaps in Travel?
Date and Time: Tuesday, September 10, 2024: 11:45 AM - 1:30 PM
Presenter: Fariba Siddiq | Doctoral Student | UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
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Speaker Biography
Fariba Siddiq is a doctoral candidate in Urban Planning at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and a researcher at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies. She completed her master’s degree in City and Metropolitan Planning from the University of Utah, and her undergraduate degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Her research focuses on transportation equity, exogenous shocks’ effects on travel, and how different built environmental and socio-economic factors affect travel and access to opportunities in both developed and developing countries. She has published on topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on travel; disparities in travel resources, outcomes, and experiences by gender, race, and class; use of emerging technologies (i.e., ride-hail) in developed and developing countries; and how built-environmental characteristics affect travel.
Before her graduate studies, she served as a lecturer in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. She also worked with the World Bank’s Gender and Mobility Team, where she assisted in the development of a policy performance assessment tool for identifying gaps in local policies and data on gender and transport in countries around the world.
