{"id":12899,"date":"2015-08-11T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12899"},"modified":"2015-08-11T08:40:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T12:40:06","slug":"sexist-parking-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/sexist-parking-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexist Parking Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/081115_1235_SexistParki1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Turns out countries around the world have segregated parking spaces:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>German law requires some regions to reserve 30% of parking spaces for women.<\/li>\n<li>These spots are bigger than usual parking places in order to make it easier to maneuver.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not just Germany. Austria, Switzerland and China have similar laws on the books. One Chinese mall went so far as painting the parking spots pink.<\/li>\n<li>Critics point out that this is sexist against women because it implies that they&#8217;re worse drivers than men.<\/li>\n<li>On the other hand some say its sexist against men because they are stuck with less than ideal places to park.<\/li>\n<li>The laws seem to have come about in the 90s when people became concerned about sexual assault in unlit parking lots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the men only parking spots that are available and other details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2015\/08\/10\/the-debate-over-germanys-sexist-women-only-parking-spaces\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2015\/08\/10\/the-debate-over-germanys-sexist-women-only-parking-spaces\/\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out countries around the world have segregated parking spaces: German law requires some regions to reserve 30% of parking spaces for women. These spots are bigger than usual parking places in order to make it easier to maneuver. It&#8217;s not just Germany. Austria, Switzerland and China have similar laws on the books. One Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/081115_1235_SexistParki1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12902,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12899\/revisions\/12902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}