Grab drivers stand beside their vehicles during the launch of the ride hailing-firm’s services in the country, in Phnom Penh, on December 19. Charly Two/AFP Robin Spiess | The Phnom Penh Post Publication date 08 March 2018 | 06:55 ICT The ride-hailing industry employs thousands of drivers in Cambodia, but a survey of the four largest firms revealed that less than a dozen of those drivers are women, while none of the companies had undertaken specific programs to train or recruit female drivers. Executives justified the lack of female representation in their workforce by noting that women don’t like to work in the sun, don’t like lifting heavy things and prefer teaching to driving. But women’s rights advocates said that the companies needed to do a better job of tailoring their training and programming to women if they wanted to diversify their workforces. US-based Uber, for example, doesn’t offer any female-specific training – such as programs to boost recruitment or address safety conc...