New data from bike-sharing services in NYC, Chicago, and Boston show us where — and when — the disparity is largest.
Women ride bicycles one-third as often as men do.
What's up with that? Bike-sharing programs have some answers, such as where and when women are most and least likely to hop on a bike.
Three of the largest programs in the U.S. have published trip data that includes gender: New York's Citi Bike, Chicago's Divvy, and Boston's Hubway. While bikeshare habits don't necessarily reflect overall bike-riding trends, the data provides possibly the most detailed view of gender and biking ever publicly available for these cities.
In this map and the others below, you can explore the gender balance at each bikeshare station during the five months — July 1 through November 30, 2013 — that appear in all three cities' published data.
New York City — Citi Bike
Hover over any station for more details.
Overall, women took 24% of all Citi Bike member trips during these five months, the same nationwide rate found in the government's 2009 National Household Travel Survey. But there's a clear trend:
Midtown and Wall Street are much more male-dominated than other parts of town.
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