Female drivers, rare in the cab industry, sign up by the hundreds with Uber

Ingrid Goddard wanted to be a cabbie in Montreal 20 years ago but a taxi company said she wouldn’t cut it. “I was told, flat-out, ‘Hell no, you’re a woman, we don’t employ women because of the safety issue,'” Goddard said. “They outright said to me, ‘Forget it, it’s not going to happen because you’re a woman.'” […]