Elderly female drivers: considerations from the perspective of Traffic Psychology
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2019v22i2p279-302Keywords:
Traffic Psychology, Misogyny, Growing Old.Abstract
In this work it was intended to bring awareness and expose the prejudices and the discrimination faced by elderly female drivers, analyzing from the perspective of traffic psychology, in a country where the feminization of old age is a concrete trend. The prejudice that is rooted in the Brazilian society against the female drivers is aggravated by the negative stereotype and the devaluation that elderly people face. For this reason, the elderly female driver suffers twice as much in the traffic, first from being a woman in a misogynist society and second for being already in this phase of human development, which is growing old.