Uber Launched a Women-Only Service. Will It Work?

Posted by herecomethefuzz on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @02:08PM
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Re:Uber Launched a Women-Only Service. Will It Work? by Crunsher on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @02:48PM (#45364448)

Fascinating how the same product serves completely different needs in Saudi Arabia vs US/EU

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Re:Uber Launched a Women-Only Service. Will It Work? by billy99k on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @02:11PM (#45363966)

How is this not discrimination?

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Re:Uber Launched a Women-Only Service. Will It Work? by throwmeaway222 on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @03:06PM (#45364662)

Discrimination against men drivers or something?

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Re:Uber Launched a Women-Only Service. Will It Work? by mensetmanusman on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @02:52PM (#45364501)

Discrimination isn’t always illegal, as it’s the mechanism for decision making, when you choose A over B.

Offering a diversity of services for a larger subset of choices and maintaining the original choice is the positive way to look at it.

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Re:Uber Launched a Women-Only Service. Will It Work? by xenospn on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @02:51PM (#45364492)

Because you’re still able to call a regular uber.

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Re:Uber Launched a Women-Only Service. Will It Work? by akimbostrawman on Thursday September 25, 2025 @04:03AM (#45370379)

Depends if they can go past newspeak and correctly define a women

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Re:Uber Launched a Women-Only Service. Will It Work? by more_corn on Thursday September 25, 2025 @04:42PM (#45378774)

This is actually not a bad question.

What stops male sex predators from declaring a female gender identity to enroll in the program?

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