Why thousands of midlife women are too afraid to drive on the motorway. Amaxophobia is a ‘hidden epidemic’ affecting many UK drivers. Three women explain how they took back control.

/ Mike Buchanan

Our thanks to Nigel for this (Telegraph, £). He writes:

“This article made me laugh. Just another of the seemingly endless parade of reasons women struggle to navigate everyday life, let alone a full-time job! In fact I’m sure many people get a bit less gung-ho as they age and become more cautious. But as usual it’s women who need lots of help and sharing and sympathy. It never seems to occur to the purveyors of this that adding it all together creates an image of females as very high maintenance indeed requiring all sorts of special consideration and support. And by ignoring men, suggests they either have none of these problems or simply just get on with it. In either case rather making the point as to why it’s literally a ‘man made’ world.”

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  1. And because the news is highlighting a “heatwave” up pops this Why are women affected more by heatwaves? A doctor explains | News | Independent TV It seems even heatwaves are misogynistic in their affects! So no women working in hot weather (and as I recall they are more affected by cold weather or colder Air conditioning, as there were articles about that this winter gone). Reinforces the message, need a resilient workforce, better not be female.

    Curiously googling this produced an article from the UN (2024)that starts with the proposition that women are more affected by heat. But finds this only pertains to the “Global North” (aka “the West”) whereas from the “Global South2 there are no such findings. Could it possibly be that the poorer women of the global south are just more robust? Or maybe the studies in “the West” are simply looking to find reasons why women need help. Certainly it would be no surprise to learn that the mortality rate is higher for women, given that there are many more elderly women than elderly men, and extreme heat is known to affect the infirm elderly most of all.

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