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=== Women-only accomodations ===
 
=== Women-only accomodations ===
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"Women-only coaches" are becoming increasingly prolific in large cities in Japan, Brazil, and Phillipines.  While proponents of these coaches say they are an effort to prevent rampant sexual harassment on trains <ref>64% of Tokyo women stated that they had been groped in trains.[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article394630.ece]</ref><ref>[http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=2750]</ref>, others believe that this [[segregation]] is an instance of sexism against men.  Similar female-only accomodations are institutionalized in Muslim countries such as [[Saudi Arabia]].
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"Women-only coaches" are becoming increasingly prolific in large cities in Japan, Brazil, and Phillipines.  While proponents of these coaches say they are an effort to prevent rampant sexual harassment on trains <ref>64% of Tokyo women stated that they had been groped in trains.[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article394630.ece]</ref><ref>http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=2750</ref>, others believe that this [[segregation]] is an instance of sexism against men.  Similar female-only accomodations are institutionalized in Muslim countries such as [[Saudi Arabia]].
    
In Britain there are ''women-only library sessions'', ''women-only swimming sessions'' in public swimming baths and ''women-only gyms''. Feminists do not protest against any of these women-only spaces, but they have campaigned to remove ''men-only spaces'' such as ''gentlemen's clubs'' in London, and ''working men's clubs'' elsewhere in Britain. Feminists have also campaigned to allow women join ''sports clubs'' that were previously men-only such as ''golf clubs'' and ''golf tournaments'' ''(but not to allow men into the equivalent female-only clubs)''.
 
In Britain there are ''women-only library sessions'', ''women-only swimming sessions'' in public swimming baths and ''women-only gyms''. Feminists do not protest against any of these women-only spaces, but they have campaigned to remove ''men-only spaces'' such as ''gentlemen's clubs'' in London, and ''working men's clubs'' elsewhere in Britain. Feminists have also campaigned to allow women join ''sports clubs'' that were previously men-only such as ''golf clubs'' and ''golf tournaments'' ''(but not to allow men into the equivalent female-only clubs)''.
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Swedish Tax on Men: In Sweden, a female legislator introduced a bill to impose on men a 'man tax', to be spent on measures against sex offences and violences against women, but it was rejected. Her excuse was that women had always been 'oppressed' by men, so it was to compel men to make 'reparation'.
 
Swedish Tax on Men: In Sweden, a female legislator introduced a bill to impose on men a 'man tax', to be spent on measures against sex offences and violences against women, but it was rejected. Her excuse was that women had always been 'oppressed' by men, so it was to compel men to make 'reparation'.
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