For a few weeks in the beginning, the Faisaliah management banned single men altogether.

Cambodia has banned foreign men over the age of 50 marrying local women in an effort to combat sham marriages and human trafficking.

A few weeks into the project last fall, Mr. Casey asked the project leaders for permission to ban men from the house.

If these were sufficient reason to ban men from clothes-shopping this fall, the designers wouldn't be allowed to wear their own clothes.

"Makes you want a law banning men from women and children."

No law bans men from this occupation, but the weight of economic, social and psychological pressures is against their entry into it.

Outside there was movement, the stir of many boots as Banning men converged on the saloon.

A further - and more controversial - campaign which Hiratsuka led was a campaign to ban men with venereal disease from getting married.