When she was a kid, Janaki Balaraman cycled to school. During those days, a woman cycling was a rare sight so the people in Pottore, her hometown, called her ‘Cycle Janaki’. Years later, she became one of the state’s first women to obtain a heavy license and open a driving school for women.

According to a recent study, male drivers accounted for 99 per cent of hit-and-run cases and only one per cent of them were women. Studies conducted earlier have also shown that women are safe drivers because they refrain from rash driving or breaking traffic rules.

Misogynistic men are intimidated by the confidence of women behind wheels. So, they often try to shatter our confidence with their meaningless and insensible comments.

We need to understand that, how good someone is at driving never depends on their gender and that women can’t drive is just a baseless myth.

Women are trying to run the world shoulder to shoulder with men so can we call them co-drivers for the universe to run in balance.

Women had been driving the subway since 1936, but Soviet authorities barred them from doing so in the 1980s.

Choosing women to lead the farmers’ tractor rally comes as a big step in women’s empowerment in Haryana, which was once considered to be a highly patriarchal state with the lowest sex ratio.

M- Auto, launched in Tamil Nadu, is a retro-fit electric auto-rickshaw with a maximum speed of 70 km per hour.

I don’t know to drive and it is my personal choice. Even then, I consider myself a feminist and empowered.

Not enough advertisements show women driving, be it cars or bikes. Are women not seen as potential buyers, or is it plain sexism?