Uber pledges to enlist 1 million female drivers by 2020

Ride-hailing app Uber, under the microscope due to a handful of driver assaults on passengers in some cities, pledged in a blog post on Tuesday 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. Uber said it adds thousands more drivers each month. "Uber does not require (minimum) hours, and it does not require a schedule," Salle Yoo, Uber's genera