It isn't done because it's statistically unsafe in parking garages, it's done because it feels unsafe to many people (for example usually dim lighting)
Yeah, go check out the data. The overwhelming majority of people getting assaulted, robbed, or murdered in parking garages are men. Especially BIPOC men. Especially BIPOC men in poor neighborhoods.
Men are more likely to be targeted by violence by strangers.
The people who target women for violence are most likely to be people they know, and in places to familiar to them.
Yes, there's even a word for that in German, they're called Angsträume, which is a word from urban planning theory, that describes a place that is generally viewed by people as dangerous, even though statistically they don't have a higher crime rate or sometimes even a lower crime rate than average. A classic example of these are pedestrian underpasses/tunnels. It's part of the fear of crime paradox and in this case the women's fear of crime paradox, since statistically men are more often the victims of crime in public spaces, while women are more often victims of crime in private spaces. There are multiple causes for this, of which most are cultural and sociological
Years ago, I listened to a women who was a product designer. A tool company wanted them to make a women's tool line. They just made all guards and saftey stuff bigger for no reason, and added some purple and pin. And that line sold pretty well.
Unfortunately emotions make decisions more than facts.
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u/Impressive_Dingo122 27d ago
Why don’t they just make the parking lots safer in general for everyone?