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color:black;font-weight:bold'>Senegal</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s
'Taxi Sisters' to take to the roads<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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</span></font><font size=1 color="#747474" face=Arial><span style='font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#747474'> May 16 2007 at 01:27AM </span></font><font
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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><st1:City w:st="on"><span class=articletext1><font
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- Female cab drivers dubbed "Taxi Sisters" will take to the streets
of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Senegal</st1:country-region>'s sprawling
capital <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Dakar</st1:place></st1:City>
for the first time this month in a move the government hopes will boost
gender equality in the mostly Muslim nation.</span></font></span><font
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<span class=articletext1><font color=black>"This is a new way of
tackling the gender issue. What a man can do a woman can also do," Aida
Mbodj, minister in charge of women, family and social development in the
former French colony, said.</font></span><br>
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<span class=articletext1><font color=black>The female cab drivers will take
the wheel behind bright-yellow Chinese-made vehicles with "Taxi
Sisters" written in black letters on the bonnet.</font></span><br>
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><span class=articletext1><font color=black>Senegal</st1:country-region>
is one of <st1:place w:st="on">West Africa</st1:place>'s more progressive
states in terms of gender equality, albeit coming from a low base. Forced
marriages and female genital mutilation are slowly dying out and the country
has even boasted a female prime minister. </font></span></span></font><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=articletext1><font size=1 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Passengers hope
the "Taxi Sisters" will have better road sense than their male counterparts,
who often mount pavements or drive the wrong way down streets as they compete
with mopeds, horse-drawn carts, goats and pedestrians for space.</span></font></span><font
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<span class=articletext1><font color=black>"I think the Taxi Sisters
will bring a soft female touch and discipline to the roads and I hope the
male taxi drivers will change their driving behaviour," said banker
Alimatou Diop.</font></span><br>
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<span class=articletext1><font color=black>Those who do not may face the
wrath of the government's other new gender initiative: female motorcycle
traffic police officers. </font></span></span></font><span
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