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Ed Sander
June 10, 2017 at 5:55 am
“But the reality seems to paint a much milder picture. According to the statistic from Guangzhou Public Security Bureau, a total of 74 cases of sexual harassment have been reported from 2015 up to the present.”
That does not prove that it does not happen. Perhaps the women are too ashamed to report the occurrences or they think that reporting it will not help anyway.
Seperating male and females is however a dumb solution because it does not solve the cause of the problem.
Ed
Bailey
June 13, 2017 at 12:53 pm
The subway cars will be ‘female priority,’ not ‘female only.’ Men will be allowed to enter if there’s room left over in the cars. I’m not sure where the last two sentences in the first paragraph of this article came from, but it’s not any official source I’ve read.
For reference: http://www.sznews.com/news/content/2017-06/08/content_16400604.htm
admin
June 13, 2017 at 2:48 pm
Hi Bailey，we will check again with the author. But various sources say that the cars will be “women only” (or as you say “women priority” 女性专用) during peak hours (“对于这样做可能增加地铁运行成本的担忧，苏忠阳介绍，高峰期时将列车一节车厢临时设为女性车厢，这样设计不需要增加任何费用，仅需在电子屏上显示提醒，增加女性乘客的选择”) and not outside of the peak hours. http://www.sohu.com/a/147587625_123753