SA women feature in transport industry

Women’s voices in transport, especially in South Africa, have become a force to be reckoned with, University of Johannesburg lecturer Rose Luke told delegates at the Transport Forum last week. “At a recent conference in San Diego, America, it was astonishing to see only 20% of delegates were women. Looking at the women in the South African transport industry it is clear that we don’t have the same low uptake as in the States and that is very positive. I believe we have made major inroads and grown the number of women involved in transport.” Luke said this was further proven by the increase in the number of female students at UJ’s Department of Transport. “A few years ago only about 10% of the students in the Road Transport Management course were women, while today at least 35% of the graduates are women. In the BTech degree some 65% of the students are women.