Equality We Could Have Done Without…
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that women are catching up with men in an area in which they’d always been left behind before–causing injuries and fatalities through drunk driving accidents.
Between 1998 and 2007, the number of California women aged 21-24 who were involved in drunk driving accidents that caused injury or death more than doubled, from 419 to 907. Men in that age group are still far in the lead, with 3,269 drunk driving accidents resulting in injury or death in 2006, but young women are closing the gap. Over the time period measured, the young men’s incidence of such accidents increased by 39%, while women’s increased by 116%.
