Women Only Train Car System Case Study

Since it has been 21st century, there are certain type of words rapidly increasing - gender quota system, women-only parking lot, paid menstruation leave and etc. You may have heard one of those words. Those words are words that show efforts to respect female's rights and achieve gender equality. The rights of woman have been developed and polices for woman are made since Korea had entered into rapid modernization. However, some policies are at the boundary of respecting women and reverse-discrimination of men. Moreover, they deepen the conflicts and the hatred between man and woman. One of these policies is the women-only train car system. It has been hot issue since 1992 in Korea and is practiced by many other countries such as Japan, India,
This policy contradicts one of its primary goals which is to respect women’s right since it deprives men’s right by limiting their freedom of actions. According to The Korea Bizware, one of the Korea article, male passengers are claiming that this policy is a reverse-discrimination of men. Moreover, since many attempts of implementing women-only train car system have failed because of those male passengers claiming that this policy is reverse-discrimination, this can deepen the hatred between the two sexes. Korea’s misogyny, which is hatred of woman, has been a serious issue and is deepened and also extended to hatred of men currently. If this policy is carried out, it will bring more serious conflicts of two sexes. Brazil can be an example of the conflicts. According to The Telegraph, In Brazil, a woman was mugged at knife by a man in the women-only train car, since she asked him to get off from the designated cars for women. If Korea implements this system, there is a high possibility of the conflicts between man and woman like Brazil will occur as the misogyny and the hatred of men are serious problems of Korea these
Critics regard the system as a temporary expedient which make women conceal themselves from men. Gabrielle Jackson from The Guardian, which is the British newspaper that has progressive tendency, said “If women don’t feel safe on a train, that’s a societal problem that a single pink carriage can’t fix”. In other words, this system only skims the surface of the problem of sexual crimes in train instead of understanding the core causes and getting the fundamental solutions. Therefore, to reduce sexual crime rates and set women free from their worries of being harassed, there should be an effective solution instead of temporary