By msnbc.com staff and wire
After years of enduring sexist jokes and taunts from their male counterparts, women drivers can finally take heart -- a new study suggests they?re actually better at parking than men.
Covert surveillance of car parks across the United Kingdom shows that, while women may take longer to park, they are more adept than men at maneuvering into a parking space, and when they park they are more?likely to leave their vehicles in the middle of a parking bay.
The month-long study, conducted by the U.K.?s National Car Parks, was carried out amongst 2,500 drivers and looked at various aspects of parking -- including technique, accuracy and time taken to park -- in order to produce a ?parking coefficient? -- an overall score of how well a driver parks.
The overall score for women drivers was higher than for male drivers. Women also fared better when it came to finding empty spaces, were more accurate in lining themselves up before starting a parking maneuver, and were more likely to use a driving instructor?s favored method of reversing into a parking spot.
?Women fared better in many areas of the scoring,? the report said. ?This is despite the fact that, when questioned about their beliefs, only one fifth (18%) thought they were better parkers than men and less than a third (28%) of women believed they were better parkers than their partners.?
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