Women Find Peace on Commuter Trains in India - NY Times

[shadowkat]

Via work - read the following news clipping that should be of interest to anyone interested in women's rights and how women are perceived around the world.

Go here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/world/asia/16ladies.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Women%20in%20India&st=cse

Summary - while upper-class or upper-middle class women are treated well, working class women struggle. And have been known to endure groping and harrassment on commuter trains. In order to grant them some relief - the Indian government set up a Ladies Train Special - commuter trains that only have women on board. Here, finally they find some peace.

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[honorh.livejournal.com]

School uniforms here (always worn to school from middle school on) are always skirts for the girls, trousers for the boys. No, they have no choice at all. And the fetishization is something else. It's a verifiable fact that used schoolgirl panties are sold at some porn shops here--the girls having been paid quite well for them, of course. Oh, Japan! So awesome in so many ways, so very creepy in others.