“Who Should Be Restricted?”

“Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir met with her cabinet to discuss a series of rapes that had occurred in the state. Her all-male cabinet suggested addressing the problem by instituting a 9:00 PM curfew for women and girls; after a lengthy discussion, Meir said that since the rapists were men, a better solution would be to institute a curfew for men instead. According to Meir, the cabinet was silent for a time—and then decided against a curfew.” —From Women and Violence by Barrie Levy, 2008