Women-only transport services for the night shifts and the early trains

A first step

Talk to the HR manager of one factory or hospital that runs night shifts and ask how many women have turned down those shifts because of the trip home. Then ask 10 women on those shifts what they pay now and what they would pay for a women-only van with a woman driver, door to door. The proof is an employer willing to pay for seats, or a full van of paying riders.

Who pays first

A factory or hospital that cannot fill its night and early shifts with women, and pays for seats because safe transport widens the pool it hires from.

What leaves today

Women refuse shifts they could do because the trip home is unsafe; safe transport turns that refusal into wages and output kept on the island.

The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.

The test

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?

The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.

In the book

• Ch. OneThe Letter That Says Yes and Means No
  32% of adult women in work, against 70% of men

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• 440Shared workspaces for women with childcare attached, in Colombo and the district towns
• 441Women's craft co-operatives with a single brand and a single buyer abroad
• 442Breastfeeding rooms and creches sold to the factories as a service, since the law asks for them

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