Have you encountered gender discrimination or harrassment whilst overseas on...?

Question

travel, business or you lived there?

Answer 1

plenty...Sicily italy seychelles and the middle east in general...Bahrain excluded in that.  

Saudi Arabia takes the pig cake.  

Answer 2

Yes, Italy and France were the worst.

Or best, depending on if you like getting you @ss pinched by strangers or not.  

Answer 3

Indeed, I found that women in Burqas are less likely to talk to a guy than a girl in Kuwait.  The Jordanian women like to chat it up though.

Answer 4

Went to Russia twice with the navy. First time wore civilian clothes and they didn't think any different of my. Following year had to wear my uniform and the Russian men straight up ignored me, even pushed me aside a few times to talk with any male U.S. Navy that was near or with me/ us. Thailand, they ignored me. But then again I was at Pattaya Beach and they really only wanted the men for the money they would give after having slept with them. In Japan where I was stationed, the dirty old men are worse than in America, but oh so funny when drunk as long as you don't get too close! In the Philippines, while aboard one of their ships doing some stuff with their navy, one officer asked me about my relationships. I was really confused and he went on to tell me that their women join just to find a husband and once they do, they get out, and are granted the opportunity to just leave for the sole purpose of having found a mate! Everywhere else was relatively acceptable.  

Answer 5

I've never been outside the US myself, but I've heard from a few women that a lot of places in South America are pretty bad for women, at least the good-looking ones.  I've heard from one or two guys that women in I think Germany (can't quite remember now, somewhere in Europe) are more aggressive that American women, to the point where they could be considered to be harassing guys at times.  

Good to hear it?  Are you nuts?