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Letter: Letters : Green women

Published 8 March 1997

From Margaret Scott, Department for Education and Employment

London

It has been established for years by insurance companies that women are safer
drivers. Now it seems they are “greener”.

A colleague of mine, at a women’s rights conference in Amsterdam last week,
learnt that there has been a study in France which proved that women who drive
buses there use less fuel than male bus drivers, because their driving style is
less aggressive.

Issue no. 2072 published 8 March 1997

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