Women only buses in Cairo

[newcastle]

REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

An Egyptian private company has introduced the women-only buses to go around Cairo as a way to stand against sexual harassment.

The buses, to be driven by women, aim to provide a safer environment for women to commute safely around the streets of Cairo.

The Deputy Head of the Company Amr al-Englizy said that the company is recruiting women drivers to further encourage women to use buses as means of transportation. Also, the fair of these buses will be similar to the regular bus fairs that go around Cairo, reported Al-Masry al-Youm.

Manal Ahmed, 20, said that women-only buses would be a “stress relief ” for her as she won’t have to worry about who she sits or stands next to on the buses. “I take three-bus rides each day to reach my university and I hope these buses cover all around Cairo and not only the popular spots,” Ahmed told Egyptian Streets.

Noha Abdelrahman, 22, said that she usually uses the metro to move from one place to another, but having 3 carriages for women-only is not sufficient compared to the number of women passengers going to work or school each morning.

“I ironed my blouse this morning, but look at me now all squashed after an 11-stop metro ride,” said Abdelrahman laughing and pointing at her wrinkled blouse.

According to a 2013 UN report, about 99.3 percent of Egyptian women face a form of sexual harassment.

A new poll conducted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation suggested that Cairo is the world’s third-worst megacity for women in terms of risk being exposed to sexual harassment.

While introducing women-only transportation seems like a good step to combat sexual harassment, it reveals growing tensions that are alarming.

Segregation doesn’t happen all over Egypt, there are women-only metro carriages, women-only beauty salons and lines dedicated to women in public areas that are crowded.

Egypt introduced women-only carriages on the metro system in 2007. Men who use the women-only carriages are subject to pay a fine reaching 50 EGP.
The metro system has become one of the most important means of transportation in greater Cairo since its launch in 1987.
An estimate of 4 million people rides the metro daily to move around the capital city of Cairo.

https://egyptianstreets.com/2017/11/22/ ... und-cairo/

A sad reflection on Egyptian society that such a move should be necessary

[Dusak]

Good idea, as is the women only taxis they have. The only problem with both of these 'safe' modes of transport, is that the molestation's follow them onto the streets. They should pass a law dealing with these ''freedom feelers'' once and for all, but more importantly, be prepared to listen to the victims instead of saying that it was probably their fault in the first place for being assaulted.

[Brian Yare]

You had me wondering what a mole station was there, until I finished the paragraph.

[HEPZIBAH]

Women only transport is a mixed blessing. At the end of the day it does not get rid of the problem, it's like putting a sticking plaster on a cancer.

[Major Thom]

What sex are the drivers of these coaches and buses?

[Dusak]

Ladyboys.

[Major Thom]

Well there's enough about "D"

[newcastle]

What sex are the drivers of these coaches and buses?

The buses, to be driven by women, aim to provide a safer environment for women to commute safely around the streets of Cairo.

Why am I not surprised that an inability to write English is accompanied by an inability to read it

[Major Thom]

The men will soon get the hump about that!!! Women taking jobs off them..... I think that may have happened when Kers Zman opened, there were women working in the shops one week the next week they had disappeared, unless they have been moved to where Egyptian men think they should be working ..... Kitchens

[Who2]

Quote: They should pass a law dealing with these ''freedom feelers'' once and for all, but more importantly, be prepared to listen to the victims instead of saying that it was probably their fault in the first place for being assaulted.

So your talking about The Houses of Parliament, I assume....