AFTER the death of Sarah Everard, a woman who went missing in London, women across the country took to social media to discuss their own experiences of walking the streets alone and the things they do to feel safe.

In a poll asking Oxford Mail readers whether they feel safe walking alone at night in Oxfordshire, 46.6 per cent said they were female and did not feel safe, compared to 21 per cent of men. 

Here's what you said:

HAYLEY PARKER: "I don’t feel safe. I have two daughters and I am terrified of what they may have to face. I don’t let them out, and I drive them everywhere I can."

ZOE FARRELL: "I haven’t felt safe for ages, only go out at night alone with my two dogs. I don’t even feel safe with my boys popping to the shops in the evening I absolutely wouldn’t feel safe with my girls doing it either. Such a sad world."

JAMES DYER: "Nothing will change. Unfortunately the world is not perfect, all we can do is look out for ourselves whether you're a man or woman.

"Unfortunately though bad things will happen as proven with the poor woman that was killed and you definitely can’t go discriminating against every man by talking of curfews for men like it’s as if people believe it’s only men that attack women and that it only happens after 6pm."

KAREN KAZ MUSILOVÁ: "As a woman, I think it's our responsibility to do all that we can to improve our chances. We shouldn't have to of course, as ultimately it's not our fault that we are targeted - but we should still do all that we can to be safe."

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KATHY SELLWOOD: "Sadly, whether we like it or not, we live in a world where it is not safe for a woman to walk alone at night, or in a secluded quiet area, and it has been this way since Jack The Ripper.

"It’s not nice, it shouldn’t be like that, but unfortunately it is. The same as you can longer let your children go out to play and not expect to see them again until tea time. Sadly, we live in a world where we have to always be cautious and on our guard."

BECKY PAYNE: "To be honest, we still face stuff in broad daylight, I think a total societal shift needs to take place, more education in schools for early on, consent, respect - it's not mentioned in sex education or PHSE.

"We need to stamp out misogyny and casual every day sexism."

GLYN PLESTED: "Not all men are predators and a curfew is inferring they are, totally wrong idea."

NICOLA JANE: "If a man is such a animal that he needs to be violent towards women I doubt he would change with a curfew.

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"What about the kind considerate males in the world? Don’t tar all males with the same brush."

EMMA PERCIVAL: "It's purely highlighting that women don't feel safe going out after dark alone, and have to take ridiculous extra measures as to feel safe - so we have an unspoken curfew. That is already completely unfair so why not apply the same curfew to men?

"Before anyone jumps up and down I am in no way suggesting this is an actual, sensible thing to happen, but it does highlight how many people feel men having a curfew would be completely absurd whilst at the same time ignoring the restrictions women already live under."

ANNIE SIGGERY WILSON: "That’s ridiculous, you cannot tar every man with the same brush, it’s very sad what happened to this innocent young woman but don’t take it out on all men.

"Most men are nice decent people and the same with most women whoever thought this up needs to get real and stop trying to use it for their own ends."

TIM ANDREWS: "If I’m walking behind a female on a quiet street, I feel I need to cross over or stop and create a gap. I never want to make anybody uncomfortable just going about their business."

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