(THE TIMES) 6 January 2008:

There’s one area where we might not be all that happy at increasing gender equality: in the number of men and women who drink and drive. It isn’t just the well known brushes with the law of the likes of Britney Spears and Lindsey Lohan: it’s women in general.

Figures from the UK show that the number of female drunk drivers rose by 60% between 1995 and 2005. It is true that this still means that women make up only 12% of all drink drivers, but this really isn’t an area where we would welcome greater gender equality (unless the numbers were zero for both sexes).