A Are Women Inferior Drivers?

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19028, 30 May 1936, Page 9

A Are Women Inferior Drivers?

pNGLTS'H motoring epi'i'cspoiulents have been inquiring into a charge that women car drivers are inferior to men. -The statement, made by Professor Harry 15. de Silva, of the irafiie. research bureau at Harvard University, was: .“Women ear drivers are consistently inferior 1o men in physical skill and mental ability. After the age of 2d it is practically impossible to teach them to drive.

The following are some of Hie ro : plies published in a London newspaper:—

•.SLinisiics.—••■Fifteen per <-ei.u.. -of drivers in i’.ritain are women; Sb per cent, are men. Of the 'total drivers involved in toad tragedies in the ha c t v car', fig lives were available, flfl iter cent, were men, -1 per cent, word women.

A London Driving Tiistruefdr.— “The charge is rubbish. Women are just as easy to teach as men. f have just passed out a grandmother,

A Driving Tests Inspector. —“Of the men examined .15.0 per cent, fail; of the women 2.‘!.d per cent. fail. Women arc inclined to be a little move nervous, but they tire more cautious. The difference between: tltom actuuPy is not worth talking about. Consensus of upiiiojng; Drivers. —? “Women rarely get drunk. We arc certainly more courteous on tlip roads tliiitt men. Sometimes thnl is mistaken tor weakness, • On racing tracks wo lain usually h.bld our own.”