Newsstand - Women-Friendly Hotel Floors Return, With Modern Twists

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/business/05women.html?ref=business

Women-only floors in hotels are palatable once again — after a roughly 25-year drought.
But the floors are a variation on the originals — which were intended to provide a safe haven for women traveling alone on business but ended up being considered “a kind of sexist thing,” as one hotel analyst put it.

This has been discussed before on FT (too lazy to search now tho:o)... it's a slippery slope, IMO. Some of the objections were:

- Will there be a "men only" floor?
- It kind of goes against the idea of equality between men and women: the necessity of a separate floor portrays women as weaker, or in any event not equal. In this respect it is "kind of a sexist thing", as that hotel analyst (whatever that may be) put it.
- the idea of making women more welcome almost implies that they are somehow less welcome nowadays, which I find simply untrue