men can do most things women can gossip change nappies cook but studies cant seem to decide on three major prejudices against women we collate survey results that periodically insist she can she cantdriving april 2012 women better and safer drivers males more likely to speed crash and tragically die behind the wheel said this study by university of new south wales transport and road safety research from parallel parking to more challenging behaviour on busy highways women emerged as safer and more skillful motorists all roundmarch 2012 more women fail driving test the uks driving standards agency revealed that women are twice as likely as men to fail their driving test for terrible reversing overall there were 942000 serious errors of various sorts by women which left them unable to throw away their l platesjan 2012 women less likely to cause accidents some 80 of all fatal and serious car crashes are caused by male drivers said this survey by an online auto insurance group women are 27 less likely than men to cause auto accidents the study shows how traffic violations are higher for male drivers in almost every single category from reckless driving failure to yield seat belt violations or speedingapril 2012 women hit accelerator instead of brake accidents in which drivers mistakenly hit the gas instead of the brake tend to involve older female drivers in parking lots a study by the american national highway traffic safety administration found one of the studys most striking and consistent findings was that nearly twothirds of drivers who had such accidents were femalejan 2012 women better at parking covert surveillance of car parks across britain showed that while women may take longer to park theyre more likely to leave their vehicles in the middle of a bay women were also found to be better at finding spaces more accurate in lining themselves up before each manoeuvre and more likely to adopt instructors preferred method of reversing into baysmath january 2012 studies blaming stereotype for math wrong david geary curators professor of psychological sciences in the mu college of arts and science and his colleagues found that numerous studies claiming that the stereotype men are better at math believed to undermine womens math performance had major methodological flaws and many studies had no scientific evidence of this stereotype the researchers believe that basing interventions on this is doing more harm than good as vital resources are being dedicated to a problem that does not existapril 2012 teachers underrate white girls in maths researchers analyzed numbers from the american national centre of education statistics and found a clear divide between teachers positive assessment of their students abilities and their actual scores read teachers said they were doing well when really not so much but more upsetting was that the converse was true for white female students their math teachers consistently reported that they were doing more poorly in their classes than they really wereaugust 2011 for women romance before