Number of women arrested for drunken driving jumped nearly 30 percent

Submitted by nbdspcl on Sat, 2009-08-29 22:21

Article here. Excerpt:

"According to the federal government and lawyers who defend driving-under-the-influence cases, the courts are witnessing a rise in drunken driving cases involving women. Over the last decade, FBI statistics say, the absolute number of women arrested for drunken driving jumped nearly 30 percent. Over the same decade, DUI arrests of men decreased by 7.5 percent.
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No surprise for Los Angeles DUI attorney Lawrence Taylor of the Law Offices of Lawrence Taylor, who wrote the book "Drunk Driving Defense". He has long seen this coming.

"This isn't something that happened in the last few months. This has been going on as a steady phenomenon for a number of years," Taylor said. The last few years in particular, he added, noting that women now account for up to 40 percent of his firm's clientele.

His theory? "As women are more liberated and take part in the workplace more and are less focused on the home, they are exposed to more pressures and will turn to things like alcohol, as men have always done," Taylor said."'

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Single men is the only social group benefited from feminism. Article here.

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Submitted by nbdspcl on Sat, 2009-08-29 22:22

It seems to me that this is one area where women exercise their 'empowerment' without complaining.

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Mon, 2009-08-31 05:34

One has to wonder what type of men are in these unfortunate women's lives to cause them to turn to strong drink.

Horses*it machine now off.

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Submitted by Luek on Mon, 2009-08-31 14:21