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By Sanjena Sathian

March 17, 2016

Hotels can be dank, dreary places. Who knows who’s been on that carpet, under
those sheets, on those likely unwashed duvet covers before you? But like almost
every other public activity on the planet, hotel-ing while female is far worse
than while male.

From getting hit on in the bar to the threat of rape or sexual assault as they
walk to bedrooms down unfamiliar corridors populated by total strangers, women
can reasonably feel unsafe in hotels. The case of Erin Andrews, the sports
reporter who this month won $55 million in damages after a stalker rented a
hotel room next to hers and filmed her naked, is just the latest in a litany of
hotel horrors that includes Craigslist killings and Dominique Strauss-Kahn. And
it’s not just a celebrity problem or a First World one: In extremely patriarchal
societies, women who travel alone are considered suspicious at best and
sometimes inherently licentious. Numbers are weak, as they tend to be in cases
of sexual violence, but this correspondent can testify to the terror of someone
rattling your door in the middle of the night, trying to get in. 

One possible solution? We’re not sold on it entirely, but what about some
women-only hotel floors? The idea: Major hotel chains give an option to stay on
a floor, accessible strictly via a specific key card, with only other female
guests. (Unfortunately, this doesn’t solve the problem with assholes like
Strauss-Kahn; we’ll get back to you with a fix for that soon.) Something like
this has precedent. In India, Japan and Egypt, for instance, where groping
became a huge problem on public transit, governments created women-only cars.
Those earned their fair share of criticism, but speaking from experience, if
you’re catching a train and want to retain your dignity, you’re not thinking
about third-wave feminism as much as how to knee some dude in the balls if
circumstances require.

Mary Corcoran, a professor of women’s studies at the Gerald Ford School of
Public Policy at the University of Michigan, compares the idea with the spirit
of women-only dorms, lauding that “unique role” they play for women hoping to be
away from the male gaze and the male-dominated world at large. She’d never heard
of the notion of women-only hotel wings — but she likes it, “especially for
foreign travel.” We oughtn’t stereotype, but it has a ring of truth
unfortunately. In some countries, women-only hotel wings could liberate those
who otherwise would not be allowed to travel alone. 



Female-only spaces really took off in the 1970s during the Steinem-Friedan era
of consciousness-raising. In those times, it was more an issue of conversation
free of men’s loud and oppressive voices; we can’t imagine women gathering for a
discussion of bell hooks in the hallways of a Radisson, but hey, you never know.
Public spaces and their associated serendipity sure do help men make random
connections that turn into biz deals and what have you.

The bigger issue in the eyes of Stephanie Ortoleva, an international human
rights lawyer and founder and president of Women Enabled International, is that,
well, you still have to go out and face a man’s world. It’s the same critique
people make of, say, Wellesley and Smith colleges. “It could create this feeling
of safety that might not really be realistic,” Ortoleva says. Women should feel
safe wherever they are, not just in a tiny bubble: “A woman-only bus didn’t
exactly help that woman who was gang-raped on a bus that December, did it?”


Should hotels offer women-only wings? Let us know.

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