Turkish women are witnessing the abolition of the last vestige of Turkish harems. The word harem means simply “a place reserved for women. 1 ’ Until to-day “harems” continued to exist in all Istanbul trolley cars. The first two seats were reserved for women. A man might sit there if no woman protested, but any woman who wished—and many did—could make _ a man scuttle to the back of the car. Now the Istanbul city council decrees that the trolley “harems” must go, that men deserve e<jual rights with women to sit wherever they can find a seat.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20239, 24 February 1934, Page 22 (Supplement)
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