KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Well, a night on the town can be risky and many people think men are the source of the problem. So as a social experiment, officials in Bogota, Colombia held a women's night out while the girls partied. Men were requested to stay home. For more on that story, here's Marisol Espinosa.</s>MARISOL ESPINOSA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Some are calling it a citywide female street party. For five hours on Friday night in Bogota, only women were allowed to go out. The measure called evening without men had one purpose -- to raise people's consciousness about violence. The mayor believes males are the main perpetuators of violence and he predicted a significant reduction in violent crimes during the five hours. But the male curfew ignited debate about gender roles.</s>UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: I think this is great. Women always stay at home. I think it's about time men stay home with the kids and tend to things while women go out and enjoy themselves.</s>ESPINOSA: The male curfew was voluntary so men who decided to ignore it would not be arrested. But men caught in the street were stopped and asked to give an explanation. Some women took matters into their own hands. Restaurants, bars and public parks were filled with hundreds of rowdy women dancing and drinking, celebrating their evening without men. (on camera): The mayor will now call for an evening without women. This event will take place next Friday. This time, women will be asked to stay home. But Colombian women say this will prove very little, that in a patriarchal society like Colombia, this happens every evening. For CNN, Marisol Espinosa, Bogota, Colombia.
Bogota, Columbia Holds Women's Night Out