Women ONLY taxi/uber service, is it legal ?

[DigitalDrifter]

'Chariots For Women'.

They'll also pick-up trans-gendered persons that identify as women but want to crap in a mans rest room.

What if they refuse service to a man ?
What if it's a gay man ?
Gay couple with a wedding cake ?
Muslim man that wants the drivers face covered ?
Lawsuit time ?

BOSTON (AP) -- Ride-hailing companies catering exclusively to women are cropping up and raising thorny legal questions, namely: Are they discriminatory?

In Massachusetts, Chariot for Women is promising to launch a service featuring female drivers picking up only women and children. Drivers will even have to say a "safe word" before a ride starts.

Michael Pelletz, a former Uber driver, said he started the company with his wife, Kelly, in response to instances of drivers for ride-hailing services charged with assaulting female passengers.

He believes their business plan is legal, and he's prepared to make his case in court, if it comes to that. The couple had planned an April 19 launch but now say they're pushing it back to the summer to make sure their app can handle demand they say has exceeded expectations.

"We believe that giving women and their loved ones peace of mind is not only a public policy imperative but serves an essential social interest," Pelletz said. "Our service is intended to protect these fundamental liberties."

In New York City, the owners of SheRides are also promising a reboot this summer.

Fernando Mateo, who co-founded the company with his wife, Stella, said the company put the brakes on its planned launch in 2014 after spending tens of thousands of dollars on legal fees as activists and male drivers threatened to sue. The company settled one challenge, he said.

"We were accused of all sorts of things," Mateo said. "So we went back to the drawing board."

When the company re-launches as SheHails, men will be permitted as drivers and passengers. It will be left to female drivers to accept male passengers, and for female passengers to accept rides from male drivers.

While taxis driven by and for women are common in Dubai and India, such businesses would likely run afoul of anti-discrimination laws in the U.S., industry and legal experts said.

Major ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft don't give users the option of requesting a driver based on gender. The Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association, a trade group, says companies vary on whether women may request a female taxi driver.

"The safety issue is a really big deal," said Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a professor at the Harvard Business School. "But you just can't discriminate. You can't turn people away."

On the employment side, the federal Civil Rights Act bans gender-based hiring except when deemed essential.

Courts have interpreted that "bona fide occupational qualification" clause very narrowly, said Elizabeth Brown, a business law professor at Bentley University in Waltham.

Prisons, for example, have been permitted to hire female guards in select situations, but the airline industry was famously ordered to end the practice of hiring only women as flight attendants in a 1971 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Whether the 1964 civil rights law applies is also an open question. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces the law, declined to comment on the legality of women-only ride-hailing services.

Women-only car services fill a niche, but are they legal?

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

'Chariots For Women'.

They'll also pick-up trans-gendered persons that identify as women but want to crap in a mans rest room.

What if they refuse service to a man ?
What if it's a gay man ?
Gay couple with a wedding cake ?
Muslim man that wants the drivers face covered ?
Lawsuit time ?

BOSTON (AP) -- Ride-hailing companies catering exclusively to women are cropping up and raising thorny legal questions, namely: Are they discriminatory?

In Massachusetts, Chariot for Women is promising to launch a service featuring female drivers picking up only women and children. Drivers will even have to say a "safe word" before a ride starts.

Michael Pelletz, a former Uber driver, said he started the company with his wife, Kelly, in response to instances of drivers for ride-hailing services charged with assaulting female passengers.

He believes their business plan is legal, and he's prepared to make his case in court, if it comes to that. The couple had planned an April 19 launch but now say they're pushing it back to the summer to make sure their app can handle demand they say has exceeded expectations.

"We believe that giving women and their loved ones peace of mind is not only a public policy imperative but serves an essential social interest," Pelletz said. "Our service is intended to protect these fundamental liberties."

In New York City, the owners of SheRides are also promising a reboot this summer.

Fernando Mateo, who co-founded the company with his wife, Stella, said the company put the brakes on its planned launch in 2014 after spending tens of thousands of dollars on legal fees as activists and male drivers threatened to sue. The company settled one challenge, he said.

"We were accused of all sorts of things," Mateo said. "So we went back to the drawing board."

When the company re-launches as SheHails, men will be permitted as drivers and passengers. It will be left to female drivers to accept male passengers, and for female passengers to accept rides from male drivers.

While taxis driven by and for women are common in Dubai and India, such businesses would likely run afoul of anti-discrimination laws in the U.S., industry and legal experts said.

Major ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft don't give users the option of requesting a driver based on gender. The Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association, a trade group, says companies vary on whether women may request a female taxi driver.

"The safety issue is a really big deal," said Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a professor at the Harvard Business School. "But you just can't discriminate. You can't turn people away."

On the employment side, the federal Civil Rights Act bans gender-based hiring except when deemed essential.

Courts have interpreted that "bona fide occupational qualification" clause very narrowly, said Elizabeth Brown, a business law professor at Bentley University in Waltham.

Prisons, for example, have been permitted to hire female guards in select situations, but the airline industry was famously ordered to end the practice of hiring only women as flight attendants in a 1971 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Whether the 1964 civil rights law applies is also an open question. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces the law, declined to comment on the legality of women-only ride-hailing services.

Women-only car services fill a niche, but are they legal?

Reminds me of this British film.

Carry On Cabby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[ScienceRocks]

Women are ok being sexist...Just don't ever attempt doing the same if you're a man. All hell will break loose.

 

[WillowTree]

Liberals are bat shit crazy.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

'Chariots For Women'.

They'll also pick-up trans-gendered persons that identify as women but want to crap in a mans rest room.

What if they refuse service to a man ?
What if it's a gay man ?
Gay couple with a wedding cake ?
Muslim man that wants the drivers face covered ?
Lawsuit time ?

BOSTON (AP) -- Ride-hailing companies catering exclusively to women are cropping up and raising thorny legal questions, namely: Are they discriminatory?

In Massachusetts, Chariot for Women is promising to launch a service featuring female drivers picking up only women and children. Drivers will even have to say a "safe word" before a ride starts.

Michael Pelletz, a former Uber driver, said he started the company with his wife, Kelly, in response to instances of drivers for ride-hailing services charged with assaulting female passengers.

He believes their business plan is legal, and he's prepared to make his case in court, if it comes to that. The couple had planned an April 19 launch but now say they're pushing it back to the summer to make sure their app can handle demand they say has exceeded expectations.

"We believe that giving women and their loved ones peace of mind is not only a public policy imperative but serves an essential social interest," Pelletz said. "Our service is intended to protect these fundamental liberties."

In New York City, the owners of SheRides are also promising a reboot this summer.

Fernando Mateo, who co-founded the company with his wife, Stella, said the company put the brakes on its planned launch in 2014 after spending tens of thousands of dollars on legal fees as activists and male drivers threatened to sue. The company settled one challenge, he said.

"We were accused of all sorts of things," Mateo said. "So we went back to the drawing board."

When the company re-launches as SheHails, men will be permitted as drivers and passengers. It will be left to female drivers to accept male passengers, and for female passengers to accept rides from male drivers.

While taxis driven by and for women are common in Dubai and India, such businesses would likely run afoul of anti-discrimination laws in the U.S., industry and legal experts said.

Major ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft don't give users the option of requesting a driver based on gender. The Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association, a trade group, says companies vary on whether women may request a female taxi driver.

"The safety issue is a really big deal," said Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a professor at the Harvard Business School. "But you just can't discriminate. You can't turn people away."

On the employment side, the federal Civil Rights Act bans gender-based hiring except when deemed essential.

Courts have interpreted that "bona fide occupational qualification" clause very narrowly, said Elizabeth Brown, a business law professor at Bentley University in Waltham.

Prisons, for example, have been permitted to hire female guards in select situations, but the airline industry was famously ordered to end the practice of hiring only women as flight attendants in a 1971 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Whether the 1964 civil rights law applies is also an open question. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces the law, declined to comment on the legality of women-only ride-hailing services.

Women-only car services fill a niche, but are they legal?

Reminds me of this British film.

Carry On Cabby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lucy
Normally I'm all for private businesses being able to fill a niche, but with all the legal challenges of conservative owned businesses that want to cater to their own constituency, part of me would love to see feminists and libs who are no doubt all for this women only service, take it in the shorts with a successful legal challenge.

 

[MaryL]

This is coming from a place that men like to mock or minimize. Truth is, men tend to make up 90% of the sexual predator/ rapist niche. Women tend to be the victims. I am not bashing men, that is just a fact. The transgendered thing, that seems a little over the top.

 

[MDiver]

As the law of the land is that you cannot discriminate based upon sex, race, or religion, if challenged in court the company would lose.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

As the law of the land is that you cannot discriminate based upon sex, race, or religion, if challenged in court the company would lose.

It would seem so, but I wouldn't be surprised in this case if they were treated differently.

 

[2aguy]

'Chariots For Women'.

They'll also pick-up trans-gendered persons that identify as women but want to crap in a mans rest room.

What if they refuse service to a man ?
What if it's a gay man ?
Gay couple with a wedding cake ?
Muslim man that wants the drivers face covered ?
Lawsuit time ?

BOSTON (AP) -- Ride-hailing companies catering exclusively to women are cropping up and raising thorny legal questions, namely: Are they discriminatory?

In Massachusetts, Chariot for Women is promising to launch a service featuring female drivers picking up only women and children. Drivers will even have to say a "safe word" before a ride starts.

Michael Pelletz, a former Uber driver, said he started the company with his wife, Kelly, in response to instances of drivers for ride-hailing services charged with assaulting female passengers.

He believes their business plan is legal, and he's prepared to make his case in court, if it comes to that. The couple had planned an April 19 launch but now say they're pushing it back to the summer to make sure their app can handle demand they say has exceeded expectations.

"We believe that giving women and their loved ones peace of mind is not only a public policy imperative but serves an essential social interest," Pelletz said. "Our service is intended to protect these fundamental liberties."

In New York City, the owners of SheRides are also promising a reboot this summer.

Fernando Mateo, who co-founded the company with his wife, Stella, said the company put the brakes on its planned launch in 2014 after spending tens of thousands of dollars on legal fees as activists and male drivers threatened to sue. The company settled one challenge, he said.

"We were accused of all sorts of things," Mateo said. "So we went back to the drawing board."

When the company re-launches as SheHails, men will be permitted as drivers and passengers. It will be left to female drivers to accept male passengers, and for female passengers to accept rides from male drivers.

While taxis driven by and for women are common in Dubai and India, such businesses would likely run afoul of anti-discrimination laws in the U.S., industry and legal experts said.

Major ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft don't give users the option of requesting a driver based on gender. The Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association, a trade group, says companies vary on whether women may request a female taxi driver.

"The safety issue is a really big deal," said Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a professor at the Harvard Business School. "But you just can't discriminate. You can't turn people away."

On the employment side, the federal Civil Rights Act bans gender-based hiring except when deemed essential.

Courts have interpreted that "bona fide occupational qualification" clause very narrowly, said Elizabeth Brown, a business law professor at Bentley University in Waltham.

Prisons, for example, have been permitted to hire female guards in select situations, but the airline industry was famously ordered to end the practice of hiring only women as flight attendants in a 1971 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Whether the 1964 civil rights law applies is also an open question. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces the law, declined to comment on the legality of women-only ride-hailing services.

Women-only car services fill a niche, but are they legal?

Men..time to get that easy money...order a ride...and when they refuse because you are a man...sue em.......get that easy money......

 

[Blackrook]

Of course, I've never seen a male cocktail waitress but where are the lawsuits?

 

[Blackrook]

Unless they can prove I plan to rape the driver, they can't refuse to pick me up.

 

[Moonglow]

Unless they can prove I plan to rape the driver, they can't refuse to pick me up.

As an independent driver using a personal auto, they can do as they please..

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Gays and neoQueers will be against holding the Women Only Taxi service liable even though it violate PA Laws. They'll come up with a lame-ass excuse.

 

[Moonglow]

Gays and neoQueers will be against holding the Women Only Taxi service liable even though it violate PA Laws. They'll come up with a lame-ass excuse.

Especially the animated gheys...

 

[Weatherman2020]

'Chariots For Women'.

They'll also pick-up trans-gendered persons that identify as women but want to crap in a mans rest room.

What if they refuse service to a man ?
What if it's a gay man ?
Gay couple with a wedding cake ?
Muslim man that wants the drivers face covered ?
Lawsuit time ?

BOSTON (AP) -- Ride-hailing companies catering exclusively to women are cropping up and raising thorny legal questions, namely: Are they discriminatory?

In Massachusetts, Chariot for Women is promising to launch a service featuring female drivers picking up only women and children. Drivers will even have to say a "safe word" before a ride starts.

Michael Pelletz, a former Uber driver, said he started the company with his wife, Kelly, in response to instances of drivers for ride-hailing services charged with assaulting female passengers.

He believes their business plan is legal, and he's prepared to make his case in court, if it comes to that. The couple had planned an April 19 launch but now say they're pushing it back to the summer to make sure their app can handle demand they say has exceeded expectations.

"We believe that giving women and their loved ones peace of mind is not only a public policy imperative but serves an essential social interest," Pelletz said. "Our service is intended to protect these fundamental liberties."

In New York City, the owners of SheRides are also promising a reboot this summer.

Fernando Mateo, who co-founded the company with his wife, Stella, said the company put the brakes on its planned launch in 2014 after spending tens of thousands of dollars on legal fees as activists and male drivers threatened to sue. The company settled one challenge, he said.

"We were accused of all sorts of things," Mateo said. "So we went back to the drawing board."

When the company re-launches as SheHails, men will be permitted as drivers and passengers. It will be left to female drivers to accept male passengers, and for female passengers to accept rides from male drivers.

While taxis driven by and for women are common in Dubai and India, such businesses would likely run afoul of anti-discrimination laws in the U.S., industry and legal experts said.

Major ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft don't give users the option of requesting a driver based on gender. The Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association, a trade group, says companies vary on whether women may request a female taxi driver.

"The safety issue is a really big deal," said Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a professor at the Harvard Business School. "But you just can't discriminate. You can't turn people away."

On the employment side, the federal Civil Rights Act bans gender-based hiring except when deemed essential.

Courts have interpreted that "bona fide occupational qualification" clause very narrowly, said Elizabeth Brown, a business law professor at Bentley University in Waltham.

Prisons, for example, have been permitted to hire female guards in select situations, but the airline industry was famously ordered to end the practice of hiring only women as flight attendants in a 1971 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Whether the 1964 civil rights law applies is also an open question. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces the law, declined to comment on the legality of women-only ride-hailing services.

Women-only car services fill a niche, but are they legal?

Just self identify as a woman.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

In a free society this shouldn't be a problem.

Are we a free society?

 

[Blackrook]

These laws have an important reason.

 

[Fang]

Remember the douchebag guy that sued Hooters because they wouldn't hire him to wait tables. I would refuse to sit at his table. Some things are just meant to be all women. As for the all female cab service, i'm going for illegal.

 

[Fang]

In a free society this shouldn't be a problem.

Are we a free society?

No. Gay wedding cake. Where have you been?

 

[fbj]

Maybe this can be a way for me to meet a cute lady