Women in the male-dominated taxi industry

FRANCISTOWN: Taxi driving in Botswana has for a long time been male dominated. That is changing. Slowly, but surely, women are joining in.

The Francistown taxi rank is experiencing a steady increase in female taxi drivers.

The few feminine voices are so lively that the cacophony of male voices fails to swallow them when it comes to calling out for passengers or asking them where they are going. They are bouncy.  And not in any way feeling small by the preponderance of male taxi drivers. It is interesting that even when their male colleagues want to jump the queue. These ladies speak out unfazed by their masculinity.

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