For example, in the early 1990s nearly half of all drivers on the road in the UK were women, but only a third of these women motorists bought and paid for their own car (Jackson, Judith, every woman's guide to the car, Virago, London, 1993). Women are also less likely to have access to company cars, because of the different nature and lower status of their work.

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