Hooray for the gender inequality of car insurance for women

In the UK we enjoy a certain amount of satisfaction that car insurance for women is cheaper than for men. Gender equality in the car insurance business is not something we talk about because the difference of our sex gives safe women drivers an advantage over the male population. It's a gender inequality, if you will, and women benefit from it.

However, attitudes to women and driving are not the same worldwide. For instance Iran's largest car producer Iran Khodro proudly announced in November 2008, that it would be designing a car specifically for women. It would include, automatic transmission, parking assistance, navigation aids and a special jack for changing tyres without getting grease on your chador.

It was hailed as being available in a range of feminine colours and interior designs; and producers said it would have a range of features that would make things easier for women as they do the family shopping or pick up the children from school. Hmmm!

Women are banned from riding motorcycles in Iran and plans have recently been announced for the introduction of a "modesty bicycle" that incorporates special covers to protect female decency when pedalling. Sexist stereotyping, or jolly useful items? You decide.

In Saudi Arabia, women are still banned from driving cars at all. Despite announcements early in 2008 claiming the government intended to lift the ban, no advancement had been made at the end of the year and Riyadh women who protested 18 years ago still met annually to celebrate the stand they made in 1990, hoping that one day they would meet to celebrate the lifting of the ban instead.

In November 1990, 47 women had arranged to meet and the fifteen who held international driving licenses drove them all around Riyadh for over an hour before police and enforcers of the strict tenets of Islamic law forced them to stop by making arrests.

Religious backlash regarding the protest was extraordinary. Clergymen denounced the women's actions as criminal against Muslim society. Leaflets were produced and circulated describing the activists as "fallen women". A few of the protesters even received death threats.

However, their husbands, fathers and brothers stuck by them and contrary to public prophecy not one of the women was divorced because of the protest.

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