The India’s Supreme Court allowed (wants?) women to serve drinks in bars saying it is unconstitutional to ban such a thing.
It was a decision to uphold a lower court’s decision that an earlier ban was unconstitutional. City authorities had wanted the ban reinstated, arguing that women needed to be protected from the bad behavior of drunken Delhi men. The Delhi High Court had scrapped the ban in 2006, saying it went against the constitution’s principles of equality, Reuters reported.
The Indian capital is considered unsafe for women and has the highest rate of crime against women in the country. The city is also notorious for drunken brawls and road accidents involving drivers under the influence.
Indian Railway has women-only cars and I posted about Korea which is going in the same direction to introduce women-only subway cars by 2008. Japan also have such cars (thanks to ampontour for this Fickr photo).
I hope somebody won’t appeal against these women-only provisions too!
