Abstract

The changes that have occurred in our society lately have involved the woman engrossed in different activities which require a driving license in order to travel fast from one place to another. The need to get around quickly has increased so much in the last few years, that we are constantly on the move. The opinions concerning the presence of a woman at the wheel rely on different stereotypes like, for instance, ”the woman diver spells disaster or poses a real threat to road traffic”,”the steering wheel was designed only for men”on the one hand, and on the other there are opinions claiming that women are more responsible drivers than men, sticking to the rules more strictly and being more cautious in traffic, avoiding excess speed more often than men. Moreover, it is a well-known fact that women pass the theoretical driving test more easily than men, whereas men are more self-confident in the practical stage of the driving test. The opinions regarding the woman driver differ from one person to another and funnily enough, even women comment wickedly on the driving abilities of the person of the same sex, being persuaded that women drivers are a disaster for the roads”. Although the presence of the woman at the wheel has been more obvious in the last two decades, it used to be common even during the communist regime which recorded a marked tendency of turning women into heroines, of promoting the equality between sexes since women had undertaken jobs that were traditionally designed to be performed by men.