Women are better at parking than men, study suggests

Covert surveillance of car parks across Britain show women are better at manoeuvring into parking spaces.

Women are better at parking than men

By Murray Wardrop11:00PM GMT 29 Jan 2012
It is a cliché almost as old as the motor car itself, and the subject of many a sexist joke.
But the idea that women cannot park is simply untrue, according to research indicating that female drivers are more adept than men at manoeuvring into a space.
Covert surveillance of car parks across Britain has shown that while women may take longer to park, they are more likely to leave their vehicles in the middle of a bay.
The study is one of the most comprehensive ever conducted on gender driving differences, and took into account seven key components of parking styles.
Women were also found to be better at finding spaces, more accurate in lining themselves up before starting each manoeuvre, and more likely to adopt instructors’ preferred method of reversing into bays.