Cars only for men? Hamburg Green reveals a strange image of women

Is mobility still a man's business these days?

The Hamburg Green Party politician Katharina Beck surprised everyone with this cliché from the 1950s.

Hamburg - women and cars? Somehow does not go together, thinks the politician Katharina Beck (39), who is running in the federal election for the constituency of Hamburg-Nord. In an announcement for an online discussion, she lamented the “male dominance of cars in the cities”. This must be pushed back in favor of "feminist mobility" or, as Beck put it in the invitation to the discussion as a question: "Do we need female mobility planning?"

What that means exactly, the politician left open for the time being. Perhaps: All these SUVs, in which men apparently exclusively drive the children to daycare in the mornings, are simply locked out of the city and the wealthy suburbs? A statistical fact is actually: Large, heavy cars are particularly popular with women, especially tall, safe-looking SUVs. So normal cars that need wide roads and clog them accordingly. In Hamburg and in every other major city in the world. The complete story of the feminist mobility called for by the Green politician Katharina Beck can be found on 24auto.de *.