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Uber Launched a Women-Only Service. Will It Work? (upenn.edu)
5 points by herecomethefuzz 83 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


Fascinating how the same product serves completely different needs in Saudi Arabia vs US/EU


Depends if they can go past newspeak and correctly define a women


This is actually not a bad question.

What stops male sex predators from declaring a female gender identity to enroll in the program?


How is this not discrimination?


Discrimination isn’t always illegal, as it’s the mechanism for decision making, when you choose A over B.

Offering a diversity of services for a larger subset of choices and maintaining the original choice is the positive way to look at it.


Because you’re still able to call a regular uber.


Discrimination against men drivers or something?




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