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(03-30-2016 07:35 AM)Mentavious Wrote:  

This happens in Mexico City on the subway after the sun goes down.

The policy has been in effect in the Mexico City metro/subway since the 1970s. Unfortunately, as of April of this year, it's now in effect whenever the metro is open (5am to midnight, 7 days a week). I was kicked out but fortunately neither fined nor arrested.

Typically, as the metro train arrives, you can see that the the women-only cars have plenty of empty seats, maybe 20% are vacant. Meanwhile, back in steerage, the rest of the train is packed like sardines with standees - and many of the seats there are occupied by able-bodied women. I once saw a guy give his seat to a random woman so she could apply her makeup. I've also seen a guy, as he was getting up to get off, signal to a random woman three meters from him to give her his seat. Not offered to the many men who were right in front of him, standing.

(03-30-2016 06:07 PM)cascadecombo Wrote:  

Individual cars are a non-issue but entire trains, that is a pain in the ass for commuters, which would be the only real time a segregated train would be necessary.

Individual cars are indeed an issue when it means the difference between standing comfortably or even sitting for a long commute versus being packed in with barely room to breathe. It's separate but definitely not equal.

A public service campaign in the metro says NI MÁS NI MENOS, roughly, 'no special treatment', from the Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres (National Women's Institute), a government agency.



Also, single mothers (female head of household) qualify for a cheaper metro fare.