Subject: There are no women in the world who are shaping the sustainable transportation agenda? (Apparently)

I wonder if I am the only person in the world who gets upset at this:

I am from time to time approached by groups and publications with a working list of  the ten or so most influential people who are  shaping the sustainable transportation agenda, which they then ask me to comment, add to, etc.

Now what is "interesting" about these lists is that they consist almost entirely of names of males.  (Many of whom, by the way, I know and admire sincerely to their contributions. But that's not my point.)  To my mind, such lists blatantly suggest that women leaders are implicitly either without sufficient merit, forgotten altogether or acknowledged at best as serving in limited support roles, water bearers if you will for the valiant male warriors.

So faced with this, I decided to fire off this broadside to a certain number of talented women with whom I have worked with over the years or otherwise been in contact on our subject, to ask them –YOU, that is -- for views and nominations for women who belong on this list of world leaders and doers. All it would take would be their name and the usual identifying information, perhaps with a few lines introducing or giving us leads to their contributions.

If you might make your recommendation to me in private here, what I can do is collect them, work them up in draft form, share with some cooperating colleagues, post an interim version on World Streets, and then see what the world thinks of that.  My hope is that we will never see these pantheons dedicated in all seriousness uniquely to the y-chromosome impaired (that's a joke).

And of course if you would have the time and temper to work with us on this, it would be great to hear from you.

I can't wait.

Eric Britton (male)

PS. See last two days postings on this in World Streets at www.WorldStreets.org

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