Why do Japan, Mexico and other countries set up women-only carriages?

Up to now, 9 countries in the world have set up women-only subway carriages, including Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Indonesia, India, Mexico, Brazil, etc. The main purpose is to prevent women from sexual harassment and provide women with More care.

There are also relevant examples in China. In the past two years, Guangzhou and Shenzhen have piloted the establishment of "female-only carriages". The women's carriages are located at the front and rear ends and are painted pink. Women, pregnant women and children under primary school can use them. In addition, special signs and guidelines are posted at the boarding gates of the carriages and platforms. However, women's carriages are not legally compulsory, nor do they exclude men. Both men and women can ride on them outside of limited time periods. Some netizens have already had a "big discussion" about the establishment of "women-only carriages." Most of the netizens who supported it saw the original intention of the designer - to strengthen the protection and respect for women. Especially in summer when the clothes are thin, you can avoid "salty pig hands". However, netizens who raised questions and suggestions did not show weakness. In summary, there are two main points. On the one hand, they believe that if the purpose of setting up "women only" is to prevent women from being harassed, it is completely unnecessary, because it treats the symptoms rather than the root cause and should be strengthened. The intensity of punishment for "slutty hands", the improvement of monitoring and security measures, and the change of backward values; on the other hand, as a public sex resource, only women are allowed to use it, and men are not allowed to enter, which is also an injustice. . Some netizens said that this move will trigger comparisons with other groups, such as those who need men's compartments, seniors' compartments, military compartments, disabled compartments, etc. During his research in India, Zhu Tao discovered that the establishment of "female-only carriages" had an unexpected consequence: women no longer dared to enter other non-female-only carriages because men in other carriages were allowed to do so by default. Something that clearly puts women at a greater disadvantage.

"'Female-only' must first consider national conditions, and secondly, resources. For example, a 'pink channel' will be set up at airports with more security checkpoints or less passenger flow, because personal security checks are required, and sensitive people Women have one more choice, which can also increase efficiency; in addition, resources can be appropriately reallocated when there are many boys and girls. "Zhu Tao believes that there is another situation where "female-only" can be considered, such as hospitals where female characteristics are more obvious. Set up a nursing room or changing room somewhere else, because they have no choice but to go here. As for the most popular issue of "adopting women-only carriages in the subway", Zhu Tao believes that this is not realistic at this stage. Because unlike other cities, Beijing’s peak passenger flow is still very large, and the “female-only carriages” may not be able to limit the influx of male passengers, and will eventually become “useless”. In fact, in 2015, someone proposed to set up "women-only carriages" on the Beijing subway, but it died due to too many objections.

Unless it is absolutely necessary, 'women only' will have the opposite effect. Women-only parking spaces have also appeared in Kunming, Hangzhou and other places with larger spaces, but they were criticized, questioned and forced to call them "women-only parking spaces". stop. After all, women account for more than half of the population. I hope they will not be strengthened or weakened by these special channels, and we should normalize their lives.