UN women’s organization spurns Uber’s employment initiative

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by Sindy Cator on March 21, 2015 at 1:58 am

Uber has had a bad week, and things were not looking up at its conclusion. On March 10, Uber, the taxi service with a less-than-stellar track record of protecting the safety of its women passengers and drivers, went on the offensive for women’s rights. It touted a high-profile partnership with UN Women — the United Nations’ organization for gender equality and the empowerment of women — in which it vowed to create 1 million jobs for female drivers by 2020. Such a deal was bound to spark controversy considering recent news accounts of harassment of women drivers and attacks on women passengers. Now, that deal is dead,…