At Christmas and on Rainy Days: Transport, Travel and the Female Traders of Accra Book

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	Acknowledgements
1	Expected to earn, constrained to trade: Trading a customary role for Ghanaian women	3
2	Trading and the tro-tro: A description of the informal public transport sector of Accra	19
3	Petty trading in a reviving economy: The implications for motorised transport organisation	37
4	Bearing the weight: The centrality of head loading in a petty trading structure	59
5	Putting the cart before the car: Traders' use of wheeled non-motorised transport options	85
6	Female domestic financial responsibilities and household survival: Travel strategies in a developing economy	129
7	Stepping in and losing out: Bread winning and educational loss amongst Ghana's school age girls	153
8	Protected by their past, working for their future: Doorstep trading and elderly women	187
9	The trader's tales: Biographies of Ghanaian female traders	213
10	Gender and transport organisation: The case for a more sensitive policy approach	235
	Bibliography	240
	Appendix	249
	Index	263