THERE is a connection between people throwing trash outside their homes and women being groped on buses, and between low turnouts at civic protests and men using roadsides as toilets. And that is that no one takes ownership of public places in Pakistan.
Public space is experienced differently according to gender and class but the focus here is not how the experiences vary but how they shape the public space itself.
Take sexual harassment of women. Social norms relegate women to the home and men to the world outside. Women enter the public domain only using transport to get to work or …read more
Source: The Bangladesh Today
