Associated Press
To Lidia Hernandez, it's a good job, not a statement.
Cabs provide no-leering zone
MEXICO CITY - Each pink Chevy compact taxi comes with a beauty kit, a GPS system and an alarm button.
The new fleet of 35 cabs in Mexico's colonial city of Puebla are driven by women and don't stop for men. The cabs cater to women who don't want male drivers to "try to flirt with them and make inappropriate propositions," said taxi driver Aida Santos.
The sugary presentation upsets women's-rights activists. "We are in the 21st century, and they are saying women have continued worrying about beauty and nothing more," said Vianeth Rojas, of the Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights. "They are absolutely not helping eradicate violence against women."
But driver Lidia Hernandez, 40, who had worked at a gas station, called the taxis "a new and attractive source of employment."
-Associated Press
