On Wed, 07 May 2008 09:24:15 GMT, Palindrome wrote:
>Like it or not, and you probably won't, earlier this year a taxi company
>here made a point of *offering* a female driver for a late-evening
>pick-up, once they had identified that the sole passenger would be female.
>It shocked me. I'm not sure what it did for the morale of their male
>taxi drivers..
>Things are changing ..and not for the better.
It is simply pandering to a perception. I neither approve nor
disapprove of what a company does to try to increase its market share.
It is only when rules that I consider to be completely unnecessary are
imposed by the government that I disapprove.
I have little doubt that on average there is a greater risk of a male
committing a .ual assault than a female. Therefore a woman taxi
driver presents less risk to a lone passenger than a man. But what is
also true is that the risk of being assaulted by *any* taxi driver is
very small indeed - sufficiently small that there is no need to take
steps to reduce it further.
OTOH there is a greater risk of a female taxi driver being assaulted
(.ually or otherwise) by a passenger than a male driver. The risk
in that case is *not* insignificant at certain times and places. I
hope that that fact has been factored into the equation by the taxi
company concerned.
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Cynic
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