Uber pledges to sign up 1 million female drivers worldwide by 2020

Ride-share service announces initiative in light of several driver assaults on passengers but says women won't yet have the ability to request female drivers

Ride-hailing app Uber, under the microscope due to a handful of driver assaults on passengers in some cities, pledged in a blog post to sign up 1 million female drivers globally by 2020.

The ride service did not provide comparable figures for how many women drivers are on the Uber service globally today. In the United States, about 14% of its 160,000 drivers are female, the company said, and the company adds thousands more drivers each month.

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