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Safe at the Wheel? Security issues for female taxi drivers (2001)
Journal Article
Westmarland, N., & Anderson, J. (2001). Safe at the Wheel? Security issues for female taxi drivers. Security Journal, 14(2), 29-40. https://doi.org/10.5555/sj.2001.14.2.29

Women entering the workforce as taxi drivers face the same security concerns as male drivers; however, they additionally face gender-dominated2 forms of victimization. The first part of this article reports empirical research showing that female and... Read More about Safe at the Wheel? Security issues for female taxi drivers.

The quantitative/qualitative debate and feminist research: a subjective view of objectivity (2001)
Journal Article
Westmarland, N. (2001). The quantitative/qualitative debate and feminist research: a subjective view of objectivity. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 2(1),

Research methods are "technique(s) for ... gathering data" (HARDING 1986) and are generally dichotomised into being either quantitative or qualitative. It has been argued that methodology has been gendered (OAKLEY 1997; 1998), with quantitative metho... Read More about The quantitative/qualitative debate and feminist research: a subjective view of objectivity.