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By Iris Zhao

Melbourne driving school for Chinese speakers apologises for calling female instructors 'timid and weak'

A Melbourne driving school for Chinese speakers has apologised after sexist marketing on its website denigrating female instructors triggered a backlash in the local Chinese community. 

"Female driving instructors are timid [and] weak," the Number 1 Driver School wrote in Chinese on its website. 

"They tend to spend most of the class time on minor roads, can't perform intensive training and their students often improve only very slowly." 

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