2020 - I have in the past - their usual trick is to either hide behind the newspaper or pretend to be engrossed in their phone, so eye contact is near impossible (and they know this, which is why they do it). I have asked in the past but I won't ask a local and you know what I should not have to. I have talked to the receptionists but they are too timid to do anything. only once when there was a Qatari receptionist did they say anything to the men in the womens only section.