Jul 6th, 2009 | survey

"Pink taxis" for women only: is it a good idea?


Nawal Yaghi Fakhry has created a taxi service for women only in Beirut, Lebanon. Drivers, all women of course, accept not only women, but unaccompanied small children and even men WITH a woman. She's been interviewed by dozens of medias, and you can visit her website: banettaxi.com.




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Poldeve
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France

posted Oct 25th, 2009 at 04:34 CDT

I would like to add that the situation is improving in some countries. For instance, in Egypt, where sexual harassment is widespread, a man was sentenced last year to hard labor (three years) for grabbing a woman's breasts, which I find a bit harsh.

Poldeve
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France

posted Oct 25th, 2009 at 04:25 CDT

Gidget65, I agree that this would be a crazy idea in countries where sexual harassment of women is severely punished,like the US, but there are many countries where it is too often tolerated.

Gidget65
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Tennessee, United States

posted Oct 25th, 2009 at 01:43 CDT

Who will invent a crazy thing like nobody but women. I think who ever did this is crazy.

Xenosilvano
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Portugal

posted Oct 20th, 2009 at 20:17 CDT

You know I really don't know what to say about this, I heard something similar on CNN's 'Eye on Korea' (This week) about a pink parking space exculsively for women (?) ehh okay.  I agree when they say its a little bit patronising.  I've never even heard of pink roads lines before.

 
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