Women-Only Train Cars and Other Services in Japan

Kyo writes "Japan's "women-only train car" fad is covered by the Wall Street Journal here, with allusions to other women-only venues such as sports clubs, hotels, and even internet cafes. The journalist is surprisingly even-handed, presenting valid reasons why the trains discriminate against men along with a quote from a male-train-rider activist group."

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Note that in the statistics from the article:

'In December of 2002, Kobe City introduced women-only cars on some of the lines running through the city. A survey of commuters conducted a few months later by the city's Department of Transportation found that 73.8% of the women approved of the train cars, while only 28.1% of the men offered their support. Conversely, 45.4% of the men said that they were against providing women with their own train cars, an opinion held by only 7.4% of the women.'

...not surprisingly, quite a few men are willing to support this discrimination against themselves, whereas almost no women are willing to give up their favorable treatment!"

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