Yes and no. Women get a lot of harassment because they are not allowed to show anger or to "make a scene". Women are supposed to be nice and put up with it, so there are no consequences for harassing women. If girls and women were taught they are allowed to be furious, turn round, face the offender and kick him in the balls, and press charges, and make *him* feel ashamed, things would change. The whole society is supporting the offenders instead of the victims. These cars are hypocritical: they pretend to protect women while at the same time they defend a perverse social model that actually protects the offenders.

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Don't white knight on my behalf, thank you.

(Also, this looks like once again "Look how amazing Japan is", but maybe I have anti-Japan bias already)

It would be much greater if offenders were identified, publicly shamed and punished. The women are not the problem, but the pervs. What happens when there's no "pink car" available? Looks as if harassment is "normal" if you travel in a normal car. So, if you are harassed there, it's your fault. You were looking for it? It's a good first step, but if society doesn't change, it's useless.

No one said anything about 'more space'... In fact I don't think the segregation would create more space as lots of women also take the trains. The point is, in a perfect world, a pregnant women should be able to sit next to man or woman and feel comfortable

As you know, sexual assault doesn't exist in other countries because it's a big problem in japan.

This isn't a competition in suffering. Follow your own advice and glue your mouth shut.

i Hope eventually you’ll realize how much of an a*****e it makes you to post that.

That’s because men don’t get sexually assaulted the way women do. You loser.

Ok I've checked and red the statement of CD and it's quite sexists (the statement by itself) but from my view it's generally positive act and omg this thing is real. Probably I didn't travel by train a lot since my studies.

Never seen in Czech rep.

Yes . True and unfortunate. Source: I'm an Indian, living in India

The unfortunate part is needing them in the first place. I thought that was fairly obvious.

It is not sexist, but it is very sad

Ummm, but they aren’t taking action though. If they were they wouldn’t need a separate car so women wouldn’t have to worry about getting groped. Japan is an amazing country, but it does have problems as well. Sadly there’s still sexism.

Except they aren't actually taking action at all, and men ride them all the time. Telling women they need to be in their own car rather than actually doing something about the way men treat them is not a solution, and barely even an action (because it's not enforced).

No. I disagree. They invented this to avoid taking action. They put the women in a separate cage so that they don't have to make and effort to identify and punish the pervs. Similar to what other cultures do when they cover women from head to toe. It is as if women are always the problem, when they are actually the victim.