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In reply to the discussion: Sweden stirs debate with women-only swimming, in nod to Muslims [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)One womens group, the Womens Municipal League, supported the idea, while a host of others opposed it, stating that it was impractical and unnecessary.
After months of debate, the idea was abandoned. Officials decided that the Hudson Tube women-only cars werent that successful after all, and that women didnt want them anyway.
Said one official in an August 1909 New York Times article:
Almost an equal number of people (to the advocates of womens cars) stated that men are the best protection that women have in a crowded car, and that they prefer to ride in cars where men and women are together, that while there are rare occasions when some brute will take advantage of the situation to insult a lady, on the other hand the gentlemen are the best protection the ladies want against such conduct.
http://lostwomynsspace.blogspot.com/2011/06/suffragette-cars-women-only-cars-on-new.html
So it did not last, it was not widely supported and according to the article they had one single car on one line. Your post implies many cars as an ongoing policy....