This is a great story about a woman in Beirut who started a company of pink taxis- driven by women and for women.  This is pretty great!  not only is she an entrepreneur, but she has also creted a safe way for women to travel.

In the Wall Street Journal

By DON DUNCAN

BEIRUT — In Beirut, you don't hail a cab, it hails you, with a raucous honk. The city's ubiquitous, banged-up Mercedes-Benz taxis — with their hissing engines, torn upholstery and smoking drivers — are icons in Lebanon.

But these days the city's transport staple is facing some serious competition from a growing army of female taxi drivers, dressed in stiff-collared white shirts, dark shades, pink ties and small pink flowers tucked into their flawlessly coiffed hair.

All of them drive for Banet Taxi, or "girl taxi" in Arabic. It is Lebanon's first cab service for women, by women. You can't miss the company's signature candy-pink cars.