{"id":228738,"date":"2025-01-31T14:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/where-the-taxis-are-motorcycles-and-the-drivers-are-women\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T14:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:32:42","slug":"where-the-taxis-are-motorcycles-and-the-drivers-are-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/where-the-taxis-are-motorcycles-and-the-drivers-are-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Taxis Are Motorcycles, and the Drivers Are Women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When her three children didn\u2019t have enough to eat, Monica Atieno decided to apply for a job through a new program that was recruiting women to become motorcycle taxi drivers \u2014 a profession long dominated by men.<\/p>\n

At first, she kept her plan a secret from her husband, who was himself a motorcycle taxi driver in their town of Ukwala in western Kenya. When he found out, he was furious and threatened to leave. But Ms. Atieno, who is 29, says she told him: \u201cI\u2019m going to do it, because I know what I\u2019m going to achieve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, after hundreds of hours of training, she became a motorcycle taxi driver \u2014 a \u201cBoda Girl,\u201d as they\u2019re called. She\u2019s now one of only about 1,000 women among the estimated 2.5 million motorcycle taxi drivers in the east African nation of Kenya, according to the Boda Boda Safety Association, an advocacy group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n