Shenzhen women's priority carriage netizens said they were suspected of gender discrimination
In recent years, Shenzhen Metro took the lead in setting up women's priority carriage. However, due to the lack of mandatory control, the carriage was still crowded with male passengers. Shenzhen solicits opinions. During peak hours, priority carriages can only be used by persons with disabilities, minors, women and other people in need. For other passengers, staff should persuade them to leave.
According to the Shenzhen Special Zone News, recently, Shenzhen solicited opinions from the masses. It is planned that during the peak period, women's priority carriages will only be used by people in need such as the disabled, minors and women, and will persuade other passengers to leave.
It is understood that as early as June 2017, Shenzhen Metro took the lead in setting the first and last carriages of two-way trains as' ladies' priority carriages' on lines 1, 3, 4 and 5. Its starting point is to advocate the civilized atmosphere of social care for women. But 'priority' is not equal to 'exclusive', because there is no legal enforcement measures, and the carriage is still crowded with male passengers on weekdays.
Previously, some netizens broke the news on their microblog that no one gave up their seats to pregnant women in a carriage of Shenzhen Metro, and it was still in the ladies' priority carriage. What's more ironic is that all the people here are men, which is thought-provoking.
Nowadays, many netizens post on their microblog that 'there are always more men than women in Shenzhen, which also confirms this.
To this end, Shenzhen has issued the regulations on the promotion of civilized behavior in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (Revised Draft). Recently, it has publicly solicited opinions from the public. It is proposed to stipulate that the women's priority carriage set up in the subway can only be used by people in need such as the disabled, minors and women during peak hours. For other passengers taking priority carriages, subway staff will appropriately persuade them to leave. I hope to improve the phenomena of 'full of male passengers' and' occupying love seats and refusing to give up seats'.
In order to ensure that people in need can be taken good care of when taking public transport, the revised draft stipulates that public transport should be equipped with love seats for passengers in need such as the elderly, pregnant women and the disabled, and other passengers should give up their seats if they use them. If they do not give up their seats, the staff have the right to ask them to give up their seats.
The matter spread on the Internet and aroused heated discussion among netizens. It also allowed 'gender equality' and other issues to surface again and trigger discussion.