Abstract
Using roadside survey data on 2044 drivers in a southern metropolitan community, the potential of gender roles for explaining the role behavior of female drinking drivers was examined. Althouth femaledrinking drivers are like female nondrinking driver in previous driving and drinking-driving experiences, overall they are more like male drinking drivers. Both female and male drinking drives tend to drive in similar places and to be on the roads at similar times and days. They also carry similar numbers and types of passengers. The greater similarity of female drinking drivers to male dinking drivers than to nondrinking female drivers suggests caution in leaning too heavily on gender roles as explanations of female drinking-driving behavior.