Volunteer escort program gets women home safely in NY.

Volunteer groups have begun to offer free escorts home to women walking alone from subway stations late at night in Brooklyn neighborhoods where women have been attacked lately.

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You know when I was young, men I worked with would offer to walk me to my car at night and I even have asked store managers to watch me walk to my car if I were the last customer. But men have slowly gotten out of the habit of being protective over women. I don't know about the rest of you but I notice alot less men holding the door open for women too. I know that may not seem like the same thing but to me, it is. Men do not know what it is like to feel vulnerable in that way. And I still think boys should be taught to look out for women. Just my 2 cents.

I think it goes back to the women's liberation movement of my youth. We do want and deserve to be treated as equals in the business world but by and large we are more vulnerable to certain types of crimes. It wasn't that long ago that women in my office were encouraged to ask the guard to either walk them out or at least watch them to their cars after dark when there had been a few incidents in the neighborhood.

So far as opening doors, if I get there first, I'll open them for others following me but I do appreciate it when others hold the door open for me especially at times when my hands are full.