Have you been driven by a female Uber partner driver in Lagos before?
Ride-hailing company Uber is expanding its ranks of drivers and more of them are women, according to new survey funded by the high flying start-up.
The number of active U.S. drivers has more than doubled in the past year to over 400,000 from 160,000, according to survey of Uber drivers by Benenson Strategy Group, an outside research and marketing company. The survey results were posted on Uber's website.
But Uber says its drivers — known as partner-drivers — use the company on their own terms, and that there's no typical driver. U.S.
The survey also found more women are becoming Uber drivers. About 29 percent of drivers who started in the past three months are women. Overall, 19 percent of all U.S. drivers are women, up from 14 percent last December. While the survey did not break out more details on female drivers, anecdotes include suburban moms turning to Uber as a way to supplement their income with flexible hours.