Thirty-seven per cent of women interviewed for a survey conducted by the Western Railway want ladies-only services to be introduced at night. Representation pic

Here's an interesting statistic to chew upon. Thirty-seven per cent of women interviewed for a survey conducted by the Western Railway want ladies-only services to be introduced at night. Assuming this survey has been conducted with the same efficiency that the Railways keep their stations clean, the number must be a lot higher because few women may know about the survey's existence in the first place. If this is meant to convince the rest of us that the remaining 63 per cent feel safe enough to take a train after sunset, the survey needs to involve a lot more women.