feminist?
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so many advantages, why won't it take off????
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/…
Wanted - 400 female drivers: Women-only taxi service forced to apply the brakes as it struggles to find enough drivers
.'In the taxi and livery industry, where women comprise less than 3 per cent of drivers but 60 per cent of riders, women's needs go unmet on either side of the partition,' said Mateo, whose husband Fernando is founder of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers.
'Why don't we have female drivers exclusively for female riders?', she added at a news conference yesterday...
...She said that encouraging women to drive would also allow them to become small business owners in an industry that has no gender pay gap and also provides flexibility for working mothers...
...As for legal questions that have been raised as to whether a women-only car service might be discriminatory against men, Andrew Celli, an attorney for SheTaxis/SheRides, said 'We have no legal issues as far as I'm concerned.'
But the city's Human Rights Commissioner, Patricia Gatling, said the agency is reminding car service companies that denying service based on gender is illegal under city law.
He noted that the service, which partners with a number of established livery car firms, would not exclude male riders.
Tamika Mallory, spokeswoman for SheTaxis/SheRides, has said male riders could be referred to a livery affiliate if a female driver was not available...
- to be fair, a woman's needs while riding in a taxi are drastically different from those of a man'smonospaced