How do you accomplish transport safe for women in a space where violence and rape
are endemic? A simple but radical scheme is training women from the slums of Delhi,Jaipur and Kolkata as cabbies. Claudio Montesano Casillas photographs their progressOrder a cab in London, Mumbai, and modern York or Beijing,and chances are the driver will be a man. Female taxi drivers remain scarce wherever you go, probably even more so in the cities where women and girls are most at risk of sexual assault on public transport. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com