The issues that were mentioned about gender differences in driving are all about stereotypes, because we all have this ideas in our minds that men are more aggressive drivers than women and women are bad drivers. One of the reasons I could think of why we perceive ourselves that way is because as soon as we were born, we learned about gender right away rather than how to identify female from a male -- by the way our mothers dressed us up, the colors they chose for us to wear, and the way they taught us the proper way for girls or boys to act. Boys for example are not supposed to cry or else they'll be labeled as whimps. Girls, on the other hand, tend to cry a lot and that's perfectly alright. I learned that, being a girl, I'm not supposed to have fist fights with other kids or show my anger the way a boy would show it. For boys, they are punished when they display feminine behaviors and rewarded when they display masculine behaviors, and vice versa according to the Social Learning Theory.
Taking that in consideration, I believe that women are still less open when it comes to showing their aggression on the road. Like Dr. James said in class, women show the finger under the dashboard or they roll up their window first before they start cussing at the other driver. Men, on the other hand, show these emotions more openly and that's why they are more likely to be labeled as aggressive drivers. Also, because of that, they tend to get into a heated argument or confrontaion with other drivers. That's why, I think, people or studies show that men are more aggressive or submit to road rage more often than women do.
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