International Women’s Day 2025 (March 8th) is approaching. To celebrate the occasion, VTM has signed the Declaration by the Women in Transport – EU Platform for Change, an initiative of the European Commission, reaffirming its commitment to promoting equal opportunities for women and men in the transport sector.
In fact, the transport sector is not gender balanced, with only 22% of women as transport workers.
We at VTM agree that:
We at VTM are committed to ensuring gender equality in Transport, within our respective fields of competence.
We at VTM call upon all actors to address the above issues through appropriate measures.
We at VTM strongly encourage stakeholders to use the EU Platform for Change to make their individual endeavours more widely known and to share good practices across modes of transportation and countries.
Finally, we invite all those who have not yet signed to commit to a relevant cause in our sector (Declaration can be read here, and signed here).
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