Women-only passenger car

{{Further|Women in Egypt}}

On all Cairo Metro trains, the middle two cars (4th and 5th) and the foremost car in all Alexandrian trams are reserved for women (the 5th car in the Cairo Metro becomes mixed use after 21:00). These cars are used as an option for women who do not wish to ride with men in the same car; however, women can still ride other cars freely. This policy was introduced for protection of women from sexual harassment by men.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/15/world/cairo-journal-for-women-only-a-train-car-safe-from-men.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|date=January 15, 1990|work=The New York Times|title=Cairo Journal; For Women Only: A Train Car Safe From Men}}

{{Further|Women in Brazil}}

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In April 2006, the Rio de Janeiro Metro implemented the mandate established by state law. It was passed in the previous month to have dedicated passenger cars for women to avoid sexual harassment. For trains with six passenger cars, one subway car is marked with pink colors as exclusive for women, and the women-only restriction applies from Monday through Friday during the rush hours, between 6:00 and 9:00 and between 17:00 and 20:00. There is metro police enforcement to prevent men from boarding the dedicated passenger car, and the platform has a sign on the floor indicating the boarding point for women-only cars.{{Cite news|url=http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vidapublica/conteudo.phtml?id=557967&tit=Homens-nao-respeitam-vagao-exclusivo-para-mulheres-no-Metro-no-primeiro-dia-em-vigor|title=Homens não respeitam vagão exclusivo para mulheres no Metrô no primeiro dia em vigor|language=pt-BR|newspaper=Gazeta do Povo|date=2006-04-25|access-date=2013-01-26}}

A similar policy was implemented at São Paulo Metro between October 1995 and September 1997, but the Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos (CPTM) decided not to continue after some complaints by married couples and to avoid any possible contravention of article 5 of the Brazilian Constitution, that guarantees equality among citizens.{{cite news|url=http://www.istoe.com.br/reportagens/10369_SO+PARA+MULHERES|title=Só para mulheres|language=pt-BR|work=Isto é|date=2008-08-06|access-date=2013-01-26}}

{{Further|Women in Mexico}}

Women-only buses were implemented in Mexico City in 2008. The Mexico City Metro has women-only cars.{{cite news|last1=Baker|first1=Vicky|title=Mexico City's 'penis seat' sparks debate|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-39449506|work=BBC News|date=31 March 2017}} Mexico City also has women-only taxis and buses called the "pink line". Buses and taxis are now gone.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

In 1909, the Women's Municipal League called for women-only cars on New York City's Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT).{{Cite news |date=1909-02-07 |title=Want Women's Cars on Subway Trains |pages=5 |work=New York Times |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/02/07/issue.html |access-date=2022-10-17}} While the IRT rejected the proposal, the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad offered women-only cars between New York and Jersey City from April to July 1909.{{Cite web |last1=Schulz |first1=Dorothy |last2=Gilbert |first2=Susan |date=1998-07-30 |title=Women and Transit Security: A New Look at an Old Issue |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/womens/chap30.pdf |access-date=2022-10-17 |website=US Department of Transportation |pages=551–552}} The service was revived in 1958, but later discontinued.{{Cite news |date=1958-07-11 |title=Railroad Car for Women Only Praised |pages=11 |work=Spartansburg Herald |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=smwsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=d8sEAAAAIBAJ&dq=women+only&pg=7184,1181792&hl=en |access-date=2022-10-17}}

{{Further|Women in Japan}}

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In Japan, women-only cars were introduced to combat lewd conduct, particularly groping (chikan). Women-only policies vary from company to company: some are in effect during rush hour, others throughout the day, while some limit women-only cars to rapid service trains, as they tend to be more crowded and have relatively longer distances between stops. But in general, the policy is effective only on weekdays, excluding holidays. Platforms and train doors are marked with signs indicating boarding areas for the cars, and the days and times when the cars are women-only. Though intended to be exclusive to women, most train operators in Japan allow male elementary school pupils, disabled persons, and their assistants to board women-only cars.

Groping in crowded trains has been a problem in Japan: according to National Police Agency and Ministry of Justice, the number of reported indecent assault in subway carriages in nationwide Japan between 2005 and 2014 ranges from 283 to 497 cases each year.{{cite web|title=性犯罪に関する総合的研究|url=http://www.moj.go.jp/content/001178520.pdf|website=Ministry of Justice|publisher=The Ministry of Justice}}{{cite web|title=電車内の痴漢防止に係る研究会の報告書について|url=https://www.npa.go.jp/safetylife/seianki/h22_chikankenkyukai.pdf|publisher=National Police Agency}}

The police and railway companies responded with poster campaigns to raise awareness and with tougher sentences, but incidence continues to increase. In 2004, the Tokyo police reported a threefold increase in reported cases of groping on public transportation over eight years.

{{cite news

|title=Persistent gropers force Japan to introduce women-only carriages

|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/1490059/Persistent-gropers-force-Japan-to-introduce-women-only-carriages.html

|work=The Daily Telegraph

|first=Colin

|last=Joyce

|date=2005-05-15

}}

In December 2000, Keio Electric Railway, which operates trains between Tokyo and its suburbs, offered women-only cars late at night on a trial basis, in response to complaints about groping by drunken men during the bōnenkai party season.

{{cite news

|title=Tokyo trains tackle groping problem

|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1055599.stm

|date=2000-12-05

|publisher=BBC

|access-date=2009-12-31}} Keio began running trains with late-night women-only cars on a full-time basis in March 2001. In July 2001, JR East began a similar service on the Saikyo Line, which connects Tokyo with Saitama Prefecture and had become notorious for gropers because of crowding and longer distances between stops.

{{cite news

|title=Lechers give Saikyo Line worst rap for Tokyo trains

|url=http://www.asahi.com/english/nation/TKY200502090143.html

|publisher=International Herald Tribune/Asahi Shimbun

|date=2005-02-09

}}

The following year, the service was extended to evening rush hour.

In July 2002, JR West became the third company in Japan to run trains with women-only cars, and the JR West trains in Osaka became the first to offer women-only cars during morning rush hour. The same year, two more Osaka-area railways, Hankyu Railway and Keihan Railway, added women-only cars to their limited express trains, and Hankyu became the first company to run women-only cars all day long.

{{cite news

|title=Japan - Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2002

|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18246.htm

|publisher=US Department of State

|date=2003-03-31

}} Other Osaka-area companies followed suit, including Osaka Municipal Subway, whose Midosuji Line, which carries passengers at as much as 160% capacity, had a reputation for having the worst groping problem in all of Japan. Tokyo-area companies resisted the change because of logistical difficulties and fear of overcrowding in mixed-gender cars, but in 2005 they introduced women-only cars during rush hour, after awareness campaigns and tougher sentencing proved ineffective.

Women-only cars have received positive reactions from some men and some women. Women cited safety from gropers, as well as not having to tolerate various smells. Men cited not having to worry about false accusations of being a groper.

{{cite news

|title=Japan Tries Women-Only Train Cars to Stop Groping

|url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/International/story?id=803965&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

|publisher=ABC News

|date=2005-06-10

}} However, passengers complained about further overcrowding in mixed cars, and feared that women who ride mixed cars would be putting themselves at more risk than before. Visually-impaired men have been reported to unknowingly enter a women-only car and to be warned by other passengers, facing serious embarrassment.{{cite news|title=Japan: Visually-impaired want railways to clarify stance on riding in women-only carriages|url=http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070405p2a00m0na017000c.html|access-date=22 December 2015|publisher=Mainichi Daily News|date=5 April 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607050133/http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20070417030808/http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070405p2a00m0na017000c.html|archive-date=7 June 2019|url-status=dead}}

Japanese legislation from 1900 provides for a 10 yen fine for male passengers who enter a female-only railway car or waiting room; this law is technically still in effect, but the Japanese government has opined that it would not apply to the "women only" cars that are currently in use, making compliance with the "women only" rule voluntary from a legal perspective.

{{cite news

|title= 鉄道営業法 －「女性専用車両」男が乗っても法的にはOK

|url=http://president.jp/articles/-/5126

|trans-title=Railway Business Law - "Women-only car" It is legally OK even if a man rides

|first1=Kei |last1=Murakami

|publisher=PRESIDENT

|date=2011-10-31}}

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The earliest instance of women-only cars in Japan was in 1912 on the present day Chuo Main Line, when they were introduced during rush hours to separate male and female students.

{{cite news

|title=婦人専用電車

|url=http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1920445/283

|work=Tokyo Shimbun

|date=1912-01-28}}{{Cite web|url=http://rail-j.com/esse/index.php?%BD%F7%C0%AD%C0%EC%CD%D1%BC%D6|title=Runtime error - PukiWiki RJ-Essential}} Called "Flower Trains", the service ended during World War II.{{cite journal|last1 = Mitsutoshii|first1 = Horii|last2 = Burgess|first2 = Adam|title = Constructing sexual risk: 'Chikan', collapsing male authority and the emergence of women-only train carriages in Japan|journal = Health, Risk & Society|year = 2012|volume = 14|issue = 1|pages = 41–55|doi = 10.1080/13698575.2011.641523|s2cid = 143965339|postscript = {{subscription required|via=EBSCO's Academic Search Complete}}}} Women-only streetcars were introduced in Kobe in 1920, and Hankyu Railway ran special trains for schoolgirls commuting between Kobe and Nishinomiya in the 1930s.

Cars exclusively for women and children were introduced on the Chuo Main Line and Keihin-Tohoku Line in 1947, after the end of World War II. At the time, overcrowding on these lines during rush hours was so severe that women and children often could not physically board trains. The cars remained in use on morning inbound Chuo Main Line trains until 1973, when priority seating was introduced; they were retired from the Keihin-Tohoku Line at an earlier date.

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{{further|Women in India}}

Across India, all long-distance train services have special compartments reserved for women only.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} In Mumbai, the commercial metropolis, all suburban commuter trains have compartments specially meant only for women, though children of school-going age are also allowed to travel. While two compartments are designated for women 24 hours a day, one compartment is reserved for women during specified hours. The women-only compartments are provided for first as well as second class travel. Also, "Ladies' Special" trains have been introduced during peak hours where the entire train is reserved for women. There are three-four women-only specials during peak hours. With the number of women needing to travel doubling in 2000's, there is a very strong demand for these kinds of services.{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/|title=The Times & The Sunday Times|access-date=3 October 2017}} Many rail services offer women-only cars, including, among others, the Mumbai Metro and Delhi Metro.{{cite news|last=McCarthy|first=Julie|title=On India's Trains, Seeking Safety In The Women's Compartment|url=https://www.npr.org/2013/03/28/175471907/on-indias-trains-seeking-safety-in-the-women-s-compartment|access-date=26 March 2014|publisher=NPR|date=28 March 2013}} It has even given rise to a women-only taxi and rickshaw services.{{cite web|title=Women form special cab service in Delhi -- catering exclusively to women|url=http://www.pri.org/stories/business/global-development/women-form-special-cab-service-in-delhi-catering-exclusively-to-women-12782.html|work=The World|publisher=Public Radio International|access-date=25 January 2013|date=24 January 2013}}

{{Further|Women in Indonesia}}

An Indonesian railway company, PT Kereta Api, introduced women-only carriages on some KRL Jabotabek commuter trains in the Jakarta metropolitan area from August 2010 in response to many reports of sexual harassment in public places, including commuter trains and buses.{{cite web|url=http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/indonesia-railway-company-launches-women-only-carriages/391784|title=Indonesia Railway Company Launches Women-Only Carriages|access-date=3 October 2017}}

The women-only carriages on commuter trains are usually denoted by large pink or purple stickers, which read "Kereta Khusus Wanita", and are located at each end of the train. This kind of carriage was previously only able to be found on air-conditioned Electric Multiple Units (EMUs), but a number of recently repaired non-air conditioned EMUs (series KL3 or K3) have also been equipped with the purple women-only carriage stickers. Now, the women-only carriage stickers in Jabodetabek EMUs has been removed from February 2016 until now, and only replaced with the pink women-only carriages signs.

Recently, PT Kereta Api launched a special women-only train (the train itself uses an ex-Tokyo Metro 6000 series EMU, set number 6107F), which intended as further protection for women passengers from sexual harassment. To give difference from standard EMUs (which only provides women-only carriages on each end of the train), the women-only train had all of its cars decorated with large "Kereta Khusus Wanita" stickers colored purple or pink. Since October 1, 2012, PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) Commuter Jabodetabek (now pt kereta commuter indonesia) launched the women-only trains. All of the coach cars of this train are only for women, and men don't enter these trains.{{cite web|url=http://charleskkb.blogspot.com/2012/10/operasi-perdana-rangkaian-khusus-wanita.html|title=ジャボデタベク電気鉄道センター: Operasi Perdana Rangkaian Khusus Wanita - 女性専用編成最初運転|first=Charles|last=Yulianto|date=1 October 2012|access-date=3 October 2017}} This service ended in May 2013 after reports found mixed-use cars were overcrowded during rush hour while women-only cars were underutilized.{{cite web|url=http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/world/542689/indonesian-women-only-trains-are-scrapped.html|title=Indonesian Women-only Trains Are Scrapped|date=14 May 2013|access-date=3 October 2017}}

On 12 December 2011, Transjakarta, the bus rapid transit operator in Jakarta, introduced women-only areas in its buses. It is located at the front of each bus, from behind the driver to the seats near the door.{{cite news|url=https://metro.tempo.co/read/371269/transjakarta-sediakan-area-khusus-perempuan|title=Transjakarta Sediakan Area Khusus Perempuan|last=Pertiwi|first=Atmi|date=12 December 2011|work=Tempo|access-date=19 December 2022}} In July 2022, the Transportation Service of the provincial government of Jakarta planned to introduce women-only areas in angkots (share taxis) by designating left seats for women and right seats for men.{{cite news|url=https://context.id/read/351/area-khusus-wanita-di-transportasi-umum-efektif-kah|title=Area Khusus Wanita di Transportasi Umum, Efektif Kah?|date=12 July 2022|last=Nazhif|first=Naufal Jauhar|work=Tempo|access-date=19 December 2022}}

File:Kereta khusus wanita pada KRL Commuter Line..jpg|A women-only car at the front of a KRL Commuterline in the Jakarta area, July 2019

File:KRL Jabotabek women-only car 8510 20111126.JPG|Interior view of a women-only car on a KRL Jabotabek commuter train in the Jakarta area, November 2011

{{Further|Women in Iran}}There are currently women-only passenger cars, at least in Tehran and Mashhad. Every train has two women-only carriages, on the front and the back.{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11824962/Women-only-trains-and-transport-How-they-work-around-the-world.html|title=These countries tried women-only transport. Here's what happened|last=Sanghani|first=Radhika|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=2015-08-26|access-date=2019-06-21|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}{{Cite web|url=https://railway-news.com/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-tehran-metro/|title=5 Things You Didn't Know About the Tehran Metro|date=2017-12-12|website=Railway-News|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-06-21}}{{Cite web|url=http://elisabethreal.ch/public-transport/|title=How to Travel on Public Transport in Iran (If You're a Woman)|date=2015-12-07|website=Elisabeth Real|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-21}}

{{Further|Women in Malaysia}}

File:Siemens Inspiro of MRT Kajang Line set 7 interior 20240121 113138.jpg train.]]

Sexual harassment in Malaysia is common, and since 2010 trains on the Malaysian Railway have included pink-colored women-only cars as a means of cutting down on it.{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna40468372|title=Women-only buses aim to halt sex harassment|website=NBC News|date=2 December 2010|access-date=3 October 2017}} There are also women-only buses in Kuala Lumpur since 2010. In 2011, the government launched a women-only taxi service in the greater Kuala Lumpur area.{{cite web|url=http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/11/27/179417.html|title=Malaysia launches women-only taxis, hoping to reduce number of rape and robbery cases|publisher=Al Arabiya|date=27 November 2011|access-date=3 October 2017}} The taxis have women drivers, and operate on an on-call basis.

The Light Rail Transit Authority, which operates LRT Line 1 and the LRT Line 2 on the Manila Light Rail Transit System, had previously designated the first car (consisting of 2-3 articulated cars) of every LRT-1 trainset as exclusive to the elderly, pregnant women, people with disabilities, and adults with infants or children. On November 27, 2002, this was extended to include all women passengers as well.{{Cite news |last=Crisostomo |first=Sheila |date=November 28, 2002 |title=Women to get own coaches in LRT |work=The Philippine Star |url=https://www.philstar.com/news-commentary/2002/11/28/185716/women-get-own-coaches-lrt |access-date=September 20, 2022}}

On April 1, 2006, the Manila Metro Rail Transit System followed suit, designating the first car (consisting of three articulated cars) of every MRT Line 3 trainset as exclusive to women, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities.{{Cite news |last=Araneta |first=Sandy |date=April 4, 2006 |title=MRT segregates passengers |work=The Philippine Star |url=https://www.philstar.com/metro/2006/04/04/329748/mrt-segregates-passengers |access-date=September 20, 2022}}

{{Further|Women in Taiwan}}

Like Japan, Taiwan had women-only cars in TRA's local service in 2006. But because the cars did not have the desired effect on gender discrimination, they were abolished after 3 months.[http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2006/new/aug/3/today-life7.htm 台鐵女性車廂 傾向取消] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100722074411/http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2006/new/aug/3/today-life7.htm |date=2010-07-22 }} - Liberty Times（2006年8月3日）[http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/world/news/20060904i507.htm 女性専用車両が不評…3か月で存続危機] - Yomiuri Shimbun, 2006年9月4日 There are also waiting sections for women-only in specific times (for example, during night hours on Taipei Metro) as well.

File:TRA EMU coach only for the ladies 20060605.jpg|A women-only car on a TRA EMU train in Taiwan, June 2006

File:TRA EMU women-only passenger coaches location sign at Taipei Station 20060531.jpg|Sign at Taipei Main Station, Taiwan

{{Further|Women in the United Arab Emirates}}

Every train on Dubai's metro system has one designated carriage which is only for women and children between 7:00 to 9:00 and 17:00 to 20:00 on weekdays. Men entering the carriage during these times are fined 100 UAE dirhams (${{To USD|100|United Arab Emirates}} USD). The women-only carriages used to be half a carriage with a demarcation line marking the divide between the normal space and the women-only space.{{cite web |last1=Jinman |first1=Richard |title=The shame of walking into a women-only car by mistake |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-shame-of-walking-into-a-women-only-car-by-mistake-10473702.html |website=Independent |date=26 August 2015 |access-date=27 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027131102/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-shame-of-walking-into-a-women-only-car-by-mistake-10473702.html |archive-date=27 October 2018}} Around 98 fines are issued every day regarding women-only carriages.{{cite web |last1=Badam |first1=Ramola |title=Almost 100 men fined each day on Dubai Metro for using women's carriage |url=https://www.thenational.ae/uae/transport/almost-100-men-fined-each-day-on-dubai-metro-for-using-women-s-carriage-1.118172 |website=The National|date=29 May 2015 |location=Abu Dhabi |access-date=27 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027132252/https://www.thenational.ae/uae/transport/almost-100-men-fined-each-day-on-dubai-metro-for-using-women-s-carriage-1.118172 |archive-date=27 October 2018}}

{{Further|Women in Saudi Arabia}}

The Riyadh Metro, upon completion, will feature women-only cars.{{Cite news |last=Kirk |first=Mimi |date=2017-02-07 |title=What a New Metro in Saudi Arabia Will Mean for Women |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-07/what-a-new-metro-in-riyadh-will-mean-for-female-riders |access-date=2024-03-02 |work=Bloomberg |language=en}}

{{Further|Women in Germany}}

Women-only compartments were introduced on the Leipzig-to-Chemnitz regional train in 2016. Reactions from passengers were mixed. While some welcomed the measure as it made women feel safer, others thought that separating genders was "something from the past" and a "backward solution".{{Cite web|url=http://p.dw.com/p/1IWny|title=Opinion divided over women-only train compartments on eastern German route|last=Brady|first=Kate|date=2016-04-16|publisher=Deutsche Welle|language=en|access-date=2017-07-01}} It is now gone.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

{{anchor|Ladies Only}}

{{Further|History of women in the United Kingdom}}

File:Honour to Agnata Frances Ramsay.jpg published a cartoon by George du Maurier about Agnata Butler's examination success at Classical Studies.{{citation |last=Kamm |title=How Different From Us |first=Josephine |publisher=Routledge |year=2012 |isbn=9781136590290|page=96}} She was the only person in the first class of the Classical Tripos at Cambridge University that year, placing her above all the men. Here, Mr Punch (the magazine's mascot) ushers her into a first class compartment which is for ladies only.{{citation |last=Dash |url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-woman-who-bested-the-men-at-math-120480965/ |title=The Woman Who Bested the Men at Math |first=Mike |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |date=28 October 2011}}]]

The last "Ladies Only" accommodation in British trains was withdrawn in 1977,{{cite news |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d51989f6-4bfe-11e5-9b5d-89a026fda5c9.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/YKfpm |archive-date=2022-12-11 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Rail experts point to flaws in women-only train carriages idea |first1=Tanya|last1=Powley|first2=Jim|last2=Pickard|newspaper=Financial Times |date=26 August 2015 |access-date=26 August 2015}} due to a combination of different train types being introduced and equality legislation which prevented gender-specific provisions.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

On the old type of local trains, no longer operating, individual compartments of the traditional type were right across the carriage (typically 9 or so per carriage), with no corridor, bench seats for 5 or so on each side, and access only through many individual side doors. Because of concerns from individual women passengers who might be left with men in the compartment as passengers alighted, a few compartments (typically the end one in each train unit) were labelled as Ladies Only. At a time when No Smoking compartments were denoted by red window labels, and First Class by blue labels, the Ladies Only compartments were shown by green window labels.

In September 2014, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Transport Claire Perry MP mentioned a possible revival of the women-only carriages during a speech to a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference.{{cite web|url=http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/women-only-train-carriages-could-cut-7854436|title=Women-only train carriages could cut sex attacks, says transport minister|first=James|last=Cartledge|date=30 September 2014|access-date=3 October 2017}} In August 2015, Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn said he would consult on the option of introducing women-only carriages to help reduce harassment.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/26/women-only-train-carriages-a-possibility-under-jeremy-corbyn |title=Jeremy Corbyn raises possibility of women-only train carriages |first=Rowena |last=Mason |newspaper=The Guardian |date=26 August 2015 |access-date=26 August 2015}} Labour MP Geraint Davies said that the proposed system would become like apartheid.{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-s-womenonly-carriages-idea-is-apartheid-says-labour-mp-geraint-davies-10473066.html |title=Jeremy Corbyn's women-only carriages idea is 'apartheid', says Labour MP Geraint Davies |date=27 August 2015 |author=Jon Stone |work=The Independent}}

• Feminist separatism
• Gender apartheid
• Sex segregation
• Women-only space
• {{Annotated link|Bicycling and feminism}}

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• [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/world/asia/16ladies.html "Indian Women Find New Peace in Rail Commute"] by Jim Yardley, New York Times September 15, 2009

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