While it is true that 95 percent of professional drivers are men, there are nearly 200, 000 female big rig drivers in the United States.
So she constructed her reference by averaging the scans from 50 right-handed men (since the drivers in her sample were all male and dexterous).
Applicants included a man with one eye, autorickshaw drivers, retired military men, labourers and a university student whose many attempts at securing other employment had failed.
Men like to complain about what bad drivers women are, but the evidence about highway fatalities suggests that testosterone causes twice as many deaths (per 100 million miles driven) as female driving does.
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For many of Doha's residents, Musherib's wealth is its abundance of affordable labour - drivers, gardeners, and repair men.
The authorities have been providing some escort vehicles with armed men to safeguard bus journeys after dusk, but drivers say it's not enough.
Truck engines spluttered to life, men shouted, grease-blackened hands waved instructions to drivers.
Drivers swung out of their cabs, the men with rakes or shovels stood around shifting their weight from one foot to the other in discomfort.
Giuliani had fought with teachers and with Yasir Arafat, with the Brooklyn Museum and with Fidel Castro, with squeegee men, tennis fans, street venders, taxi-drivers, his own police chief, and, of course, his wife.
You know, a lot of the drivers and translators saved so many of your young men and women's lives, and I don't think we can walk out on them without having some plan as to how to take care of those who are targeted.
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Previous attempts to replace foreign taxi-drivers with Saudi ones have failed, because it was a job Saudi men did not want to do.
For men, the deadliest occupations involve transportation and material-moving (pilots, bus drivers, crane operators and sailors), while administrative-support duties (couriers and stockers) claimed the most working women.
In taxi drivers, the back of the hippocampus was larger than it was in average men.
Mr Livingstone's decision to sack Mr Norris comes after growing tension between the two men over transport plans, especially the mayor's plans to introduce congestion charges for drivers bringing cars into central London.
Men have always died more in traffic accidents -- initially, they were the more frequent drivers -- but even as women have dramatically increased their mileage in recent decades, the gap has barely budged: 61, 000 men were involved in fatal auto crashes in 2007, compared to only 33, 000 women.
For instance, the European Court of Justice recently ruled that rates could not be based on gender, a move that some feel will hurt female drivers by significantly raising their rates most especially female drivers under the age of 25, where the discrepancies in auto insurance rates between men and women are most pronounced.
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"We are truck drivers that carry fuel and then an armed gang grabbed us, " one of the Shiite men said, before the van slowly drove away.
Det Ch Insp Richard Harkness appealed for information from taxi drivers and motorists at the Cunningham Terrace car park, Omagh, and especially the two middle-aged men who helped Jason into his taxi with his friend after the assault to contact police.
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