Male superiority goes into reverse

Published on Monday 30 January 2012 00:00

ANOTHER bastion of male superiority has fallen. According to a survey by NCP, women, it seems, are better at parking cars than men.

Women turned out to be not just more adept at finding a space in a car park and then getting their vehicle into it, but also did it more correctly, by reversing into spaces more often than men did.

This, it seems, is less risky for pedestrians when the car leaves, so women can claim not just to be better parkers, but also more safety conscious.

But for crestfallen males, the findings have their silver lining. It did not cover kerbside side-on parking, where practical experience suggests that women find the necessary manoeuvring rather more difficult.

This unresolved side issue apart, what does the survey finding mean? Perhaps men will conclude that household budgets are better served if female partners did all the shopping. Or maybe women will decide that men should drive women to the shops so that they can be informed of the errors in their parking ways.

Far from helping to end the battle of sexes, this, we suspect, has merely opened up new fronts.

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