Who’s making these trips? Mostly women. This is the kind of social reality that traffic patterns lay on the table: Even though women make up nearly half the workforce, and their commutes are growing increasingly close in time and distance to men’s, they’re still doing a larger share of the household activities that, back in the Leave It to Beaver days, they may have had the whole day to complete12 (and, as Rosenbloom points out, 85 percent of single parents are women).
