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## Transcript

Over the past year Uber has been in the news a lot. Often for the wrong reasons but now the company is making a move that might drum up some positive press. On Tuesday the ride booking company announced an initiative with The United Nations Women's Organization to create One Million jobs for women by 2020. My name is Esta. I live in Nairobi. And I walk with [ UNKNOWN ] as a driver. Not coincidentally the announcement comes with the 20th anniversary of the UN's Beijing declaration. The declaration meant to advance the goals of equality, development and peace for all women everywhere in the interest of all humanity.

Uber wrote in the announcement, we intend to invest in long- term programs in local communities where we live and work. This important mission can only be accomplished when all women have direct access to safe and equitable earning opportunities. Employment equality is, of course, a commendable goal, but actually achieving that 1 million number might be trickier for Uber than it sounds. According to Uber's own numbers, the company only has around 162, 000 drivers in the US. And only about 14 % of them are women. If you do the math, that's a little less than 23, 000 female drivers in the states.

And doing some slightly more complicated math, Business Insider adds, America remains its largest market. For it to reach this goal, assuming the 86 to 14 male to female ratio continues ,. It means its global driver workforce will need to grow to 44 times that of its current U. S. driver pool. If that weren't enough, convincing women to get behind the wheel might be tricky as well. Especially, with multiple reports of women being raped by Uber drivers around the world. [ MUSIC ] [ INAUDIBLE ] So yeah, tough odds. But odds Uber appears ready to take on. As the New York Times reports, Uber hit 2.

8 billion dollars in its most recent funding round. And now has plans to expand into the Asia Pacific region.

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