Uber pledges to enlist 1m female drivers by 2020
San Francisco
RIDE-HAILING app Uber, under intense scrutiny due to a handful of driver assaults on passengers in some cities, pledged in a blog post to sign up one million female drivers globally by 2020.
The ride service did not provide comparable figures for how many women drivers are on the Uber service globally today. In the United States, about 14 per cent of its 160,000 drivers are female, the company said, and the company adds thousands more drivers each month.
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