Women car insurance news
17/07/2008

Study shows stereotypes still rife

In news that will surely come as a surprise to women car insurance customers, who are much more likely to receive a cheaper quote than their male counterparts, motoring newspaper and website Auto Trader has released details of a study into gender-based perceptions of drivers.

Perhaps controversially, given the fact that women's superior driving records makes woman's car insurance cheaper than men's, 40% of respondents said they felt men were better drivers than women, with a large number of respondents remaining non-committal.

A spokesperson from woman car insurance leader CoverGirl commented on the news. "Despite the hard-facts, statistics and experience of many years, this myth that men are better drivers than women won't go away," she said.

Adding, "This notion can only be one thing: a stereotype. Right across the world, women have far fewer serious accidents than men, yet we are meant to believe that somehow women don't quite cut it on the roads.

"Try telling men and women of similar age with similar driving records who are both searching for cheap car insurance that the woman's quote is cheaper than the man's because she, being a woman, obviously must be the worse driver. It clearly doesn't make sense.

"This study is a classic example of how age-old gender perceptions still refuse to make way for the truth of contemporary reality."