Harassment in transport: ladies, buses will stop … – TF1

A bus does not stop at the stop but when you ask him. In Nantes, an experiment will be launched at the end of the year: the evening, women can ask the driver to get off between stops in order to have less distance to walk to their homes. This test is based on similar examples in Canada. It aims to reduce the sense of insecurity that makes the female audience to give up transport in the evening.

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harassment in transport is not a marginal phenomenon. According to the High Council for Equality between Women and Men, 100% of public transport users have experienced at least once in their life gender harassment or sexual assault.
Secretary of State for Women’s Rights Pascale Boistard must present this Thursday morning at the North station a measuring gear to fight against this harassment. Among the announced measures appear experimentation stops in demand in the bus in the evening and night. No trains for women at night but a national awareness campaign. It will be launched by the State with posters in transport. The minister could also launch a SMS alert system with an application to geotag the incident. Finally, participatory-using markets to take place on the transport network to detect lines or axiogènes places.

Comments on the physical, insults

Faced with the scourge of hands on the buttocks and sexist remarks, the Minister also wants to raise awareness of the warning numbers like the train ( 3117) or (32 46) of the RATP or emergency terminals on the docks, mentioning explicitly “violence” as a ground of appeal.
Two-thirds of public transport users are travelers and two-thirds of victims of abuse and insults are women, like the overwhelming majority of victims of sexual violence.
Gender harassment, which differs from the simple “drag” or flattery, can take various forms, such as whistling, comments on the physical, not punished by law, or insults, punishable by the law. The legislation itself needs to be better known. These sexist and sexual violence against women occurs mainly in buses and school buses throughout the territory. Violence against men tend to take place in trains.
Six in ten women fear an assault or robbery in transportation Ile against three out of ten men.