This is a debate older than sliced bread and every bit as sexist as the assumption that women should be slicing it. Even women flying fighter planes around the country to different air bases during World War Two didn’t put this to rest. Every other week tabloid newspapers use a celebrity crashing their car as an excuse to produce the results from an obscure study, the conditions of which are rarely revealed, on whether men make better drivers than women or vice-versa. The short answer to this headline is no.

It is a stone-age assumption that the practicalities required to move a motorised vehicle are beyond the apparently emotionally driven and irrational female brain. As with most things, it comes down to the behaviour of the individual behind the wheel. We are pre-programmed for very little that is gender specific when it comes to every day tasks. Trying to make sense of the endless number of studies on the subject is difficult. Most stories surrounding this topic talk exclusively about the act of driving rather than the knowledge of the road laws themselves, which is interesting.

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Men vs Women, Mars vs Venus, Emotion vs Logic and Other Stereotypes

The following sentences might fry your brain a little. Do stereotypes fulfil themselves because humans learn to behave as society tells them to? Or are different genders genetically predisposed to certain behaviours? Regardless of which line of thought you go down it is highly likely you won’t get a definitive answer because, as with most things in life, men and women have equal capabilities.

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