# 2nd Entry : Women shouldn't be behind the wheel ???

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Assalamualaikum everyone…

Now I will move to the second entry. The topic of this entry is about the stereotyping that women shouldn’t be behind the wheel. According to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, the meaning of stereotype is a fixed idea or image that many people have a particular type of person or thing, but which is often not true in reality. While in the Critical Literacy module stated that Stereotyping is exaggerated generalization associated with a categorizing system. 

It is no doubt that stereotyping is not a good attitude and people already know it. However, being stereotype is such a human nature. We hate it, but still we do this to people and vice versa. Please don’t deny it because we did. Most of the times we do judge people even though we do not know them very well. This is because we often categorize people based on the experienced that we had before with people that have the similar characteristics.

Women shouldn’t be behind the wheel is one of the examples of stereotyping. There is a situation that women always been labeled as a bad driver compared to men. In my point of view the statement is really sexist. It is unfair to claim someone's ability on driving based on their gender. For instance people always assume that if there are any cars that moving at the slow speed on the road, the driver must be a woman even though they do not see the driver yet! To me the assumption is really inequitable. This is because both men and women have their own skills when driving and it cannot be judged according to gender. 

If we see the statistic on the research that have been made about women and men's behavior of driving,  it shows that the number of men driver is higher than a woman driver on the mistakes of  not wearing a seat-belt, driving while intoxicated, breaking traffic laws, and driving recklessly. Consequently, we can see that man also made mistakes when driving. Thus, we cannot simply judge that women are not a good driver and should not be behind the wheel. Here I would like to share an image that I found on confused.com which is showing a surveyed on the secret lives of drivers.

From the image of surveyed that made by Confused.com to the 2,000 people above, we could see the percentages of men and women’s risky driving behaviors. We can conclude from the surveyed that both men and women have their weaknesses on driving. Hence, it is so unfair to say that women should be prohibited from driving because not only women made mistakes when driving. Men do it so.

In a conclusion, there is no valid evidence that every woman is not a good driver. The stereotyping that women shouldn’t be behind the wheel should not be accepted. Even though sometimes stereotyping can be true but it is not always right. I am sure that no one in this world like if they are being stereotyped as something or anything before gets to know who they really are. Albeit stereotyping can have a positive view but most of the time it portrayed the negative assumptions toward something. So, the best way is we have to stop stereotypes others. Even though it is not easy but we have to try our best to avoid ourselves from doing it. Let’s look back at ourselves and stop judging other people without any valid basis.