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Plane and car crash testing is still designed to keep men safe. That puts women in danger

  • Written by Natasha Heap, Program Director for the Bachelor of Aviation, University of Southern Queensland
Plane and car crash testing is still designed to keep men safe. That puts women in dangerKarl Baron/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

The next time you board a commercial flight and are told how to sit in the brace position for an emergency landing, consider this: did you know that international plane safety testing only requires adult male crash test dummies?

Even with car crashes, male dummies are still used for the majority of crash...

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