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Women have been driving yellow cabs in New York since the 1940s, but 99% of drivers are male. Even among drivers of cars booked
Women have been driving yellow cabs in New York since the 1940s, but 99% of drivers are male. Even among drivers of cars booked
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2018-12-01
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Women have been driving yellow cabs in New York since the 1940s, but 99% of drivers are male. Even among drivers of cars booked by phone or online, only 4% are women. That may change with the launch of SheTaxis, an app that lets female passengers insist on female drivers, and vice versa.
It will be available in New York City, Westchester and Long Island, and the firm plans to expand to other cities. Stella Mateo, the founder, is betting that quite a few women are nervous and weary of getting into cars driven by men. The service may also appeal to those whose religious beliefs forbid them to travel with unrelated men. Each driver wears a pink pashmina. Men who ask for a ride will be directed to another car service.
Similar services thrive in India, South Africa and several Middle Eastern cities. Japan has had women-only railway carriages on and off since 1912. Known as hana densha(flower trains), they offer shelter from the
gropers
who make rush hour in Tokyo so disagreeable.
But SheTaxis faces two speed bumps. One is practical. Demand has been so great that the firm has had to decelerate its launch until it can recruit 500 drivers. The other obstacle is legal. By employing only female drivers, SheTaxis is obviously discriminating against men. Since anti-discrimination law is not always applied with common sense, that may be illegal. And there is no shortage of potential litigants. Yellow cabbies are furious at the growth of online taxi firms such as Uber. "It’ s not hard to imagine a guy ... filing suit," says Sylvia Law of New York University Law School. "SheTaxis’ defence would probably be that its drivers are all independent contractors."
Because the firm caters only to women, it is discriminating against male customers, too. Is that legal? Angela Cornell of Cornell Law School thinks there could be a loophole. New York’ s Human Rights Commission could make an exemption on the ground that SheTaxi offers a service that is in the public interest: women feel safer not getting into cars with strange men. Women-only colleges are allowed, so why not women-only cabs? The snag is that some men may also feel safer getting into cabs with female drivers. A study in 2010 found that 80% of crashes in New York City that kill or seriously injure pedestrians involve male drivers. Women drivers are simply better.
If SheTaxis is accused of discriminating against men, it may______.
选项
A、decelerate its launch as an online taxi firm
B、employ both male and female drivers
C、make anti-discrimination law not applicable
D、spring to the defence of its drivers
答案
D
解析
推断题。根据题干定位到第四段。原文指出“It’s not hard to imagine a guy…filing suit,”“SheTaxis’defence would probably be that its drivers are all independent contractors”, 由此推断,如果SheTaxis因为歧视男性而被控诉的话,它将通过辩护来保护它的司机 们,因此D项为正确答案。A项“减缓其作为网上出租车公司的上市脚步”,B项“男女司 机都雇佣”,C项“使反性别歧视法不适用”,均与原文不符。
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考研英语一
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