Women commuters in Bangkok report feeling feel less safe than those in Moscow, Manila, Paris and Seoul.
Overall Bangkok was the eighth least secure city for women using public transportation, coming in at the median in a report on 16 cities published Wednesday by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Women in Bogota, Columbia, reported feeling the least safe in the poll, which surveyed 380 to 513 women in each of 16 cities around the world.
The poll surveyed six key indicators. While Bangkok respondents reported relatively low incidents of verbal and physical harassment, they reported an overall sense that public transportation was not safe and that no one would help them if they were abused.
After Bogota, the survey’s results found Mexico City, Mexico; Lima, Peru; Delhi, India; Jakarta, Indonesia; Buenos Aires, Brazil; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to be less safe.
Women felt the safest in New York, Tokyo and Beijing.
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