From time immemorial, a woman was the keeper of the hearth, a man was a breadwinner, a support for his family. But times are changing, and now a young man with a baby carriage is not surprising, and increasingly accepts the praise and admiration of others. But the woman driving the car becomes the object of ridicule, and only because the men decided so.
"If your wife wants to learn how to drive, the main thing is not to get in her way!" - one of the popular anecdotes of the world wide web. "A sign of an accident", "a monkey with a grenade", "a trained bear" - such accusations were prepared by the "powers that be" for "the beautiful half of humanity."
According to the traffic police, the number of fatal accidents on the roads due to the fault of men - drivers is almost 10 times higher than the number of such situations due to the fault of an autoload. And the statistics of indicators for 2016 generally indicate that women are 5 times less likely than men to get into traffic accidents.
Mikhail Gorbachev, a bestselling writer on improving driving skills, in one of his books refers to a survey conducted in the German city of Stuttgart, which showed that 74% of men consider women to be more attentive drivers than themselves. However, only 20% of men answered the question "Can a woman be entrusted with the safety of a car and life?" answered positively.
Yuri Geiko, a journalist and author of works for motorists, writes that the majority of women "make their way to the steering wheel" through the opposition of their husbands. Their arguments are the same - the health of their beloved wives, but the main fear is deeper: “When a man-driver gets a wife-driver, a healthy piece breaks off from his purely masculine world, into which the uninitiated is prohibited from entering, like an iceberg from mainland ice. And it is still not known in what foggy distance it will float … For male pedestrians, the "autogena" is generally a tragedy: from now on they have to feel like half-men. Sooner or later they will have to catch up with the weaker sex."
A poll by the Public Opinion Foundation showed that over the past 5 years it has become easier for women in Russia. Today, attending classes in a driving school, you can make sure that at least half of any group is made up of the fair sex. The driver's seat has ceased to be an inaccessible area for them. Many auto ladies admit that with the advent of the car in their lives, they began to do more, solve problems faster and implement plans.
In the modern world, it is necessary to understand and realize that women are the same members of society as men, therefore road users should be divided not into men and women, but into good and bad drivers.
Few people know that the first car rally in the world was made by a woman, Berta Benz - the wife of the inventor of the first car, Karl Benz. Together with her sons, she drove 180 km. Bertha took this risky step in order to attract buyers of her husband's invention, and she succeeded perfectly. The brave woman cleverly coped with the difficulties that arose: in order to refuel, she had to buy naphtha at the pharmacy and draw water from the well, and she cleared the clogged gas line from the cap with a pin. When the ignition wire was frayed, Bertha insulated it with what was at hand, namely a garter elastic. But the difficulties of movement did not end there for her: the leather brake linings were torn to pieces, but Berta did not think long how to rectify the situation, she simply hired a shoemaker.
The famous inventor and owner of car factories Henry Ford made his way to success with his wife Clara Jane. Henry invented the automobile at night in the barn. The people around him laughed at him, but Clara Jane believed that her husband would change the world and in every possible way helped him in the inventive business, illuminating his work with a kerosene lamp. Decades later, Henry Ford was asked who he would like to be in his next life. "I absolutely do not care," he replied, "the main thing is that my wife was next to me."
Is there any doubt that many inventions and achievements of science saw the light of day not without the participation of women? Is it worth conducting unnecessary testing for them for the right to participate in world progress? After all, it's not about cars, not about accidents, not about the struggle for rights and statuses. Supporting each other, respect and understanding is the key to ensuring that there are more satisfied, successful men and women around, not only on the road, but also in life.
