Female Driving Instructor

The female driving instructor is becoming more prevalent as women come into their own in the workplace.

A few decades ago, it would be a rare thing not to find a man as your instructor; however, today women will often request to be taught by a female driving instructor as a matter of preference, since they feel that they will have more empathy from a female driving instructor and that the overall driving experience will be more enjoyable. A woman may often feel that another woman will be more understanding of her requirements.

Women instructors may be chosen by both sexes over their male counterpart because they are considered less intimidating and would be more understanding of their student's needs on a lesson to lesson basis.

People's emotional states change on a daily basis and it is generally considered, rightly or wrongly, that a woman would be more intuitive to these states and would therefore know how to respond appropriately to the emotional needs of their students.

Evolution may have given women a more nurturing and caring nature in order that they become effective in their role as mothers and this may have resulted in their being able to bring about an overall soothing and calming influence on their students.

This is not to say that women will 'go soft' on their student and allow them to get away with sloppy driving and to overlook the mistakes that would, on a driving test, cause them to fail.

The female driving instructor can be excellent and often more effective than their male equivalent, much in the same way as women make excellent doctors.

Again, this may be because of their gentler nature and not in spite of it

Both men and women students experience some degree of nervousness when learning to drive and a kind word from an understanding instructor does help enormously to allay these nerves.

At the risk of being patronising to women in general and to the female driving instructors in particular, it is important to note that women often make excellent drivers and are, on the whole less likely to be impulsive and to take the kind of risk that men might take. This can result in their being better and safer drivers.

This may seem a sweeping statement and there is always the exception that makes the rule.

In much the same way as more and more women are turning to medicine and making an excellent job of it; so are they appearing more and more in the field of driving instruction and many men as well as women will be grateful for this fact.