An all-female garage outside Paris offering manicures, massages and lessons in mechanics is doing a roaring trade since opening last month, challenging stereotypes of auto repair being an essentially masculine domain.
Only Girls, in the suburb of Saint-Ouen-l'Aumone, caters to women who feel they have been taken for a ride by male mechanics who bet on them showing little interest in what goes on beneath the bonnet.
"When you're a woman, it's like you've got 'sucker' tattooed on your forehead," said Sandrine Hautenne, one satisfied 42-year-old customer.
"One time, I went round to three different garages, and got three different estimates. Since then, I've sent my uncle to get estimates and – guess what? – the prices have dropped!," she told AFP.
From spark plugs to shock absorbers, a female mechanic outlined the trouble spots of Miss Hautenne's car. "If it had been a man, he wouldn't have explained any of this to me," she said. Full story...
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Only Girls, in the suburb of Saint-Ouen-l'Aumone, caters to women who feel they have been taken for a ride by male mechanics who bet on them showing little interest in what goes on beneath the bonnet.
"When you're a woman, it's like you've got 'sucker' tattooed on your forehead," said Sandrine Hautenne, one satisfied 42-year-old customer.
"One time, I went round to three different garages, and got three different estimates. Since then, I've sent my uncle to get estimates and – guess what? – the prices have dropped!," she told AFP.
From spark plugs to shock absorbers, a female mechanic outlined the trouble spots of Miss Hautenne's car. "If it had been a man, he wouldn't have explained any of this to me," she said. Full story...
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