media mention

These women want careers as truck drivers. They say they can’t get a job because of their gender.

Same-sex training policies were initially put in place to protect women from sexual harassment or hostility in the male-dominated workplace. Female drivers do report high rates of harassment — in one poll, a third of female drivers reported that they had been inappropriately touched in the workplace.

Liz Chacko, an attorney at the National Women’s Law Center who is co-counsel on the complaint, said creating a same-sex training policy is not the right way to address sexual harassment.

“It’s nonsensical and unlawful,” Chacko said. “It’s a total failure of creativity if what they are trying to do is help women.”