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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:
"It has been proposed that technology choice was influenced by a Victorian 'separate spheres' ideology, where the gasoline car was signified as a masculine object, while the identification of electric cars with women 'took hold early and tenaciously'. [Early] gasoline cars were dirty, were prone to breakdowns and had to be cranked to be started, and required some degree of mechanical skills, while electric cars were clean, reliable, and aesthetically appealing.
The gasoline car’s disadvantages reinforced masculine mechanical prowess, whereas the simplicity of electric cars was viewed as feminine."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422424001242
