Original title: didi ride the windmill to restrict women to ride at night? Lawyer: illegal should be revoked
4hw.org on November 6, Didi travel released the announcement of "didi windmill trial operation plan" on its app. According to the announcement, Didi tailwind will be put into trial operation in seven cities in succession from November 20. During the trial operation, provide 5:00-23:00 (female 5:00-20:00) and short and medium distance (within 50km) downwind platform services in the city.
As soon as the announcement was published, many netizens immediately questioned Didi's regulations on restricting women's use of time on the windmill, which were suspected of sexism.
Liu Qing, Didi's president, responded on his microblog Saturday: 'please give us more time. '
Red Star News interviewed experts in anti discrimination law and lawyers in the field of gender equality.
Expert: the solution is not to restrict women's use
He Xia, director of the anti discrimination law research center of the Law School of Southwest University of Finance and economics, believes that it is necessary to judge whether the practice of restricting women's use time in Didi's notice on trial operation of Shunfeng car constitutes discrimination and whether it constitutes unreasonable discrimination based on gender.
First of all, only restricting the use time of female passengers constitutes gender based discrimination. Second, such restrictions are not reasonable. He Xia believes that even for the purpose of safety and security, it is not appropriate to restrict the use of women. The reason for the potential safety hazard is that didi Shunfeng has previously had its own problems in the management of operators' qualification review and safety procedures. The key to solve this problem is to strengthen supervision and improve technical means to resist the safety risk, so as to provide a safer travel environment for passengers of all genders, rather than excluding women from the scope of passengers in a specific period of time Outside. Such a solution is a form of managerial 'laziness' and sexism in the guise of protection. If the security problem can be solved by restriction, can we deduce that the law should forbid women to go out after 8 p.m?
He Xia told Red Star news that although didi shunfengche is a product of didi company, it is not exactly the same as the bus. However, Didi has a legal obligation not to infringe on the personal dignity of consumers, which includes non discrimination. This is also the social responsibility of such a large enterprise as Didi, which should promote a more fair society, rather than limit the rights of women in order to reduce their responsibilities.
Lawyer's point of view: illegal, should be revoked as soon as possible, otherwise will encounter administrative punishment
Wan miaoyan, a well-known lawyer for women's rights protection, said that Didi's move was a typical gender based differential treatment, a gender discrimination and a violation of the personal dignity of female drivers and passengers.
The Constitution stipulates that men and women enjoy equal rights in political, economic, cultural, social and family life. The State shall eliminate all discrimination against women. This trial operation plan is based on the fact that women are the second sex attached to human groups and need restrictive special protection, rather than providing women consumers with goods or services that meet the requirements of the consumer rights and interests protection law.
Article 56 (9) of the law on the protection of the rights and interests of consumers, in case of 'violation of the personal dignity of consumers, violation of the personal freedom of consumers or violation of the right of consumers' personal information to be protected according to law', the market supervision administration may impose a fine of 500000 yuan, or even suspend business for rectification.
President Didi's response: as a senior female white-collar worker, I also feel that the product is not very good for women
Liu Qing, Didi's president, responded on his microblog Saturday: 'everyone's criticism has been received. As a senior female white-collar worker, I also feel that the function of hitchhiker products is not very easy to use for female students. Our internal product students had no choice but to laugh at themselves for making 'the most difficult hitchhiker product', which blocked their friends' hearts and made them feel very depressed. But on the issue of safety, it's a little bit like running on thin ice. Please give us more time. We will soon launch the evaluation meeting of the function of hitchhiker products. We welcome more criticism and suggestions, so that we can better protect your travel safety and experience. '
Staff of Public Relations Department of didi company replied to Red Star News reporter: we have paid attention to the feedback of users on 'the scheme of windmill trial operation limits women's night travel'. Thank you for your suggestions and criticism. At present, the small-scale trial operation plan of the downwind vehicle is published, which is part of the public opinion collection of the downwind vehicle. In the future, the formal online plan will be continuously improved according to the feedback of all parties in the society.