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photo id   481851
photographer   Javad Montazeri
place   Tehran, iran
date   15 May, 2007
Iran First Women's Taxi Agency
Roshanak Soleimani, 23, (Left) graduated from highschool in computer science and now is one of the first women taxi drivers in Tehran, Iran on May 15, 2007. The first women's taxi agency started it's work in Tehran. It's estimated that around 100 women taxi drivers give services every day by company. Taxi Bisim Banovan (Ladies' Wireless Taxi) has been formed to provide a safe environment for female travellers in Tehran, where an estimated 60,000 to 70,000 women use private cabs each day. No male passengers are allowed and only female job applicants are accepted. The telephone operators are all women, some of them multilingual to cater for foreign passengers. The drivers have to pass special classes and courses about safe driving and first aid. They, also, have to use GPS maps and digital taxi meters in their cabs.