Overview

• Starting next month, the pilot will let women passengers request female drivers and allow women drivers to request female riders through new preference settings in the Uber app.
• Matches will be prioritized but not guaranteed, and women can opt out or switch to any available driver if wait times become excessive.
• The feature builds on Uber’s 2019 launch in Saudi Arabia and its expansion to 40 countries, where it has completed over 100 million women-only trips.
• Uber has recorded more than 2,700 reports of sexual assault in the U.S. between 2021 and 2022 and is defending over 2,300 ongoing legal claims.
• With women comprising about 20 percent of U.S. drivers, Uber designed reservation options to ease potential delays and competes with Lyft’s Women+ Connect feature.