The Unable Lady Syndrome

Women, 88 percent actually, use the gender card to wriggle out of difficult situations, including bad driving

When former glamour model Katie price aqua Jordan was fined for not driving her car properly in Sussex last week, she replied to the charges saying, “I’m just a typical woman driver”. Her casual remark may not have gone down well with women but a recent study conducted by MyCelebrityFashion.co.uk states that 88 percent women actually use gender to excuse their actions or get out of situations. Women admit to using the “I’m a woman” card often, irrespective of the gravity of the situation.Women admit to using the “I’ am a woman” card often, irrespective of the gravity of the situation.

When we spoke to woman closer home, they all accepted to using their gender for turning situations to their favor sometimes or the other. For ZULEKHA gupta, it’s most helpful to remind people about her gender when wanting to get ahead in a serpentine queue. Noor Enayat, seconds her, “it’s called the unable lady attitude. I have done this to get work done at government offices and to avoid standing in the queue.” Tanya moitra says once broke the queue during the polls at her voting booth and just said that she was a woman and had a child to tend to at the queue immediately,” she says smiling.But the top situation to use gender as an excuse for women remains bad driving, ever here. “Once someone drove a car on my foot in a market and when I want to confront the driver, who turned out to be a lady, she told me ‘you know women are bad drivers’ and I was stumped.”Rita Arora has used it to avoid getting challenged. She says,” Once I was talking on the phone and I told the cop that since I am a girl, my mother was worried and I was telling her on the phone that I’d be home soon. It was the truth, but I did use my gender as an excuse for breaking the rule and he let me go without any challan.But some, like Anindita Sharma, use it an extraordinary way. “I always blackmail my husband for the remote by saying that I am a woman and I work doubly hard. As I balance both work and home. It’s the easiest way to get him to feel obliged and he literally gives me the remote as an offering.