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Sustainable Development

Why the Delhi Metro needs to get rid of the ladies compartment

by The Daily Eye Team November 26 2014, 2:05 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 41 secs

Having a women’s compartment is actually reinforcing the idea that men are entitled to the majority of the space. There are plenty of reasons to take the ladies compartment on the Delhi Metro, a single car reserved for women in India’s capital city. It smells better in the sweaty summers, for one, and the conversations are prime for eavesdropping. There’s also no chance that a guy will strategically position his flip phone to take photos down your high necked t-shirt.
The latter is why so many of the city’s women prefer to trek to very first car of the platform when traveling alone. And Delhi has been dubbed India’s “rape capital” with about 1,400 rapes last year, giving the matter serious weight.

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