Caroline Bou Rached: an ambitious and bold women taxi driver

In it issue of last Monday, L’Orient le Jour spoke with Caroline Bou Rached, a taxi driver, who shared her experience in working in what is known to be a mostly male dominated job.  Caroline noted that she has been working for more than three years with a private taxi company in Hazmieh where many of her male colleagues were at first surprised to see her.  However, this does not seem to raise any concern amongst customers.  She adds that she sometimes has to be firm in order to impose respect.

Caroline who has an 18 year old daughter, said that she loves her work which has allowed her to get to know many areas in Lebanon.  She spoke also about the health problems she has as a result of working for 12 hours every day.  She also referred to her experience in changing tires and in making some repairs on her car although she only had to do this once, adding that when people see a woman changing a tire, they rush to help her.  Caroline concluded by saying that her aspiration is to have her own taxi company in which she will equally recruit women and men.

(Source : L’Orient le Jour, August 17th 2015)