Thursday, June 18, 2009

In Tokyo, suggested the introduction of cars just for men.

Ten Shareholders Tokyo railway operator Seibu Holdings, which including one branch has a subway, asked the management company with a request to enter cars, which would have the right to travel only by men. On this Wednesday, June 17, reports Reuters.
"Such measures against harassment, as the introduction of cars just for women have proved effective to some extent, but the measures to deal with false accusations of harassment was not taken. In order to comply with the equality of the sexes, it is necessary to enter cars for men only" - the authors write treatment.
According to them, the train operator had been many cases of false accusations of sexual harassment.
Commenting on the possible outcome of a request of shareholders, the share which the company is not disclosing the source of Reuters on the board of directors of Seibu Holdings questioned the need for male coaches. According to the interlocutor Agency, the number of frivolous claims by women, by contrast, is small.
The special cars for women were introduced to the underground and surface rail Tokyo a few years ago. The decision was taken after complaints yaponok to increased harassment.
June 16, the media was informed that to introduce women's coaches in the Beijing Metro plans to MPs. Replying to a question from the agency said that if there were similar plans in the Moscow metro, the head of his press service Pavel Suharnikov responded negatively.

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