The Sisterhood and the SFCTA

From the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (SFCTA):

Women comprise only 15% of the nation’s 14.8 million-person transportation workforce, and even less at the executive level. This leaves women’s voices underrepresented and suggests challenges associated with attracting and retaining women in the transportation field. Some literature suggests that perception of the industry and lack of female role models drives women away from the transportation field.

Not surprising that none of that "literature" is cited. The claim is implausible on its face, since wonen don't seem to have different transportation needs than men.

Nor is it really clear exactly what the SFCTA does, except have its fingers in every transportation pie in the city.

Instead, it's apparently a gratuitous bit of gender chauvinism to be expected here in Progressive Land.

Tilly Chang, pictured above, is the SFCTA's Executive Director. She has long advocated Congestion Pricing that is unpopular with the public. 

Maybe with more womens' "voices" in the agency, she can finally impose that policy on the people of San Francisco.

See also The anti-car dream: Congestion Pricing and Congestion Pricing: Bad idea whose time still hasn't come.