From time immemorial, the woman was the keeper of the hearth, the man the earner, a support for his family. But times are changing and now a young man with a pram is not surprising, and increasingly accepts the praise and admiration of others. But a woman driving a car becomes an object of ridicule, and only because men have decided so.
"If your wife wants to learn how to drive, the main thing is not to stand in her way!" - One of the most popular jokes on the World Wide Web. “Sign of an accident”, “monkey with a grenade”, “trained bear” - such accusations “the mighty of this world” prepared for the “beautiful half of humanity”.
According to the traffic police, the number of fatal crashes on the roads due to the fault of male drivers is almost 10 times higher than the number of such situations due to auto-fault. And statistics of indicators for 2016 generally indicates that women are 5 times less likely than men to get into accidents.
Mikhail Gorbachev, a best-selling 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 answer the question "Can a woman be trusted with the safety of a car and life?" answered positively.
The journalist and author of works for motorists Yuri Geiko writes that most women "get to the helm" through the opposition of husbands. They have the same argument - the health of their beloved wives, but the main fear is deeper: “When a man-carrier receives a driver’s wife, a healthy piece, like an iceberg from mainland ice, is broken off from his purely male world, into which the uninitiated is forbidden. to what foggy distances it will float … For pedestrian men, the “autocar” is generally a tragedy: from now on they are forced to feel half-men. Sooner or later they will have to catch up with the weaker sex. ”
A survey of the Public Opinion Foundation showed that over the past 5 years, women in Russia have become easier to live. Today, visiting classes at a driving school, you can make sure that at least half of any group are women. The driver's seat for them has ceased to be an inaccessible zone. Many avtoledi 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 free 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 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 traveled 180 km. Bert took this risky step in order to attract buyers of her husband’s invention, and she did very well. The brave woman resourcefully coped with the difficulties that had arisen: to refuel, she had to buy ligroin in the pharmacy and draw water from the well, and she cleaned the clogged gas line with a pin from the hat. When the ignition wire was frayed, Berta insulated it with what was at hand, namely, with an elastic band from the stocking garter. But the difficulties of movement didn’t end for her: the leather brake linings were torn to pieces, but Berta did not think long about how to fix the situation, she simply hired a shoemaker.
Henry Ford, the famous inventor and owner of automobile plants, made his path to success with his wife, Clara Jane. Henry invented the car at night in the barn. Others laughed at him, but Clara Jane believed that her husband would change the world and helped him in every way in inventive work, illuminating his work with a kerosene lamp. Decades later, Henry Ford was asked who he wanted to be in his next life. "I absolutely do not care, " he replied, "the main thing is that my wife be next to me."
Is there any doubt that many inventions and scientific achievements saw the light not without the participation of women? Should they conduct unnecessary tests for the right to participate in world progress? After all, the point is not in cars, not in accidents, not in the struggle for rights and statuses. Supporting each other, respect and understanding - this is the key to ensuring that there are more satisfied, successful men and women around, not only on the road, but also in life.
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