* Bangladesh - The ordeal and hassles of women commuters
Working women need more buses in office hoursDhaka,Bangladesh -The Daily Star, by Durdana Ghias -7 Octo 2007: -- "Apa, we cannot take you; our women's seats are filled up," said a bus helper to Lubna, a young lady, standing at the busy Karwan Bazar intersection... Buses were swooshing past her with the helpers saying similar things... Even though some of the helpers were considerate enough to give her a ride, she herself was not ready to board a bus without a place to sit on because all the buses were crammed with, to say precisely, men... According to women commuters, men mostly occupy the five or six seats designated for women in the buses... Standing in a packed bus can be very embarrassing for a woman as a section of male passengers try to pinch or touch her unnecessarily. Riding a bus late at night is also very insecure... (Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain - A woman commuter in the Farmgate area struggles to board a public bus)
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