Since the beginning of 2007 Russian railways start to divide train compartments into male and female ones. Firm main-line trains will soon have separate compartments for men and women plus compartments of a mixed type.
      The innovation is being undertaken to regulate the system of train tickets booking and will concern economic and business-class carriages. The compartment type is also planned to be marked on train tickets but the new system was claimed to not affect the tickets price and booking time.
      Railway services explain that the innovation was generally caused by complaints of women who expressed worry about sharing a compartment with male strangers. First trains with male and female compartments will appear on several routes December 15 and will later spread over other trains across Russia.
      
      
      Source: www.trud.ru