Getting More Women On Bikes [The Atlantic]
To men, the bicycle in the beginning was merely a new toy, another machine added to the long list of devices they knew in their work and play.To women, it was a steed upon which they rode into a new world.
Unfortunately, in the United States of today, women are not riding that steed in numbers proportionate to their presence in the population. According to the most recent figures from the Alliance for Biking and Walking, only 24 percent of the bicycle trips in the country are made by women. In countries with better biking infrastructure and education, such as the Netherlands and Germany, women and men ride bikes in roughly equal numbers.
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