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Female driversMonday 26 November 2001
An insurance company recently won the right to offer lower premiums to women drivers because, it stated in its advertisements, they are a safer bet than their male counterparts.

They were able to back up this claim with hard statistics - so why then does the myth of the ditsy female driver persist?
'Honestly! 'Beeping' women drivers!' is a phrase still frequently muttered through clenched teeth by impatient male motorists and Jo Bunting has been wondering why ...


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