Men and women in Kelantan, Malaysia can no longer share checkout lines. In the grocery store, for example, women will have to take their melons to a separate cashier. The chief minister says the purpose of the law is "to safeguard the ladies."

But in Saudi Arabia the Commission for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has decided that women will now be allowed to check into hotels alone. Still, innkeepers will have to report them to the police, to safeguard the ladies, no doubt.