DAMAGE CONTROL: The pledge comes as the rapidly expanding company deals with fallout over incidents of assaults by drivers from Boston and Chicago to Delhi.
SAN FRANCISCO: 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 around the world by 2020.
The ride service did not provide comparable figures for how many women drivers are on the Uber service worldwide at present. In the United States, about 14% of its 160,000 drivers are female, the company said. Uber said it adds thousands more drivers each month.
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