Reacción a "Reaction: sexual harassment on public transport harms women's health and forces them to change their behaviour"

Sexual harassment in public transport is a global problem that increases the gender gap, limits women's urban mobility and impacts on their quality of life. The study by Useche et al. is a systematic review of a cross-cultural pattern of gender-based violence that manifests itself in multiple settings, at different levels of economic development. 

The study provides evidence of how, in everyday life, individual strategies are adopted in the face of a structural problem. It calls for the reformulation of public transport policies to include women in decision-making and to consider that there are different degrees of vulnerability in terms of access to alternatives for action to prevent sexual harassment. Finally, it should be recognised that the work has been carried out with a high degree of methodological rigour and promotes the reformulation of the quality criteria for systematic reviews.