"Why can't women reverse into a parking space?"
In the U.S. it's at least fairly common to see a posted prohibition against backing into a parking space. Personally, I would like to have the option sometimes. Now, having just typed that, I'm wondering if our U.K. folks are referring to parking side-by-side with other cars in a lot, which I was thinking of, or to end-to-end "parallel" parking against the curb. If you mean parking against the curb, for cryin'out loud someone teach them to back in; we have people here who don't get that, too, and they have a heck of a time unless they have an extra space open to manuever.