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Extra wide and long women’s parking spaces that are helpfully drawn in pink lines with a female symbol to guide you are the latest thing in South Korea.
Thousands of the spaces, which are better-lit and closer to lifts and escalators, are being put in in Seoul.
According to website motoring.com.au, the city’s Assistant Mayor for Women and Family Affairs, Cho Eun-hee said: “It is like adding a female touch to a universal design and make things more comfortable for women.”
This is not the first time gender segregated parking spaces have been implemented.
In 2012, the German town of Triberg triggered a sexism row when it put in 12 parking spaces reserved for women in a 220-space car park, where the rest were “men only”.
Mayor Gallus Strobel said “humourless people” had criticised the move but the response was “overwhelmingly positive,” The Guardian reported.
Agencies/Canadajournal
