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Thursday's Graun reports on The Near Miss project's findings that women experience almost twice as much harassment or poor driving while cycling: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/11/female-cyclists-bad-driving-harassment-study-uk-women-men-near-miss
Rachel Aldred quoted as saying that the main link appears to be the lower reported speed of the women who took part in the study compared to men (so presumably more exposure to drivers generally as higher numbers are able to overtake, in addition to the other suggestions listed in the article). Nice one, London!
[NB: the causal feature here is likely to be the speed itself, not specifically gender - people of all genders who report lower speed also report more bad behaviour from motorists; additionally women overall reported lower speeds than men. No heroic shouting about how you "KNOW WOMEN WHO ARE EVEN FASTER THAN ME" will be required here, thx.]