And this is hilarious anecdata. I also know lots of women who use Uber all the time and have no issue with it.

It sounds like your wife is overly sensitive and I honestly don't believe you know the attitudes of all of your wife's friends with regards to Uber. This is classic "make up some rubbish to prove my point online."

They presumably know their wife better than you do, internet stranger. They did not hide that they were talking from their experience, and not from a published paper on Uber statistics.