Why Carmakers Always Insisted on Male Crash-Test Dummies
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Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Beginning with 2011 model-yearvehicles, federal regulators have required automakers touse petite female crash dummies in frontal automotive crashtests.
Several news outlets have picked this story up. Yetthey haven’t recognized that it’s part of a longer strugglein business-government relations -- and the product of along-held cultural resistance to considering genderdifferences in design.