Italian far-right makes sexist International Women's Day flyer
Source: The Guardian
Italian far-right makes sexist International Women's Day flyer
Female ministers and opposition condemn leaflet from League members in southern Italy on the natural role of women
Angela Giuffrida
Thu 7 Mar 2019 12.06 GMT Last modified on Thu 7 Mar 2019 12.53 GMT
Representatives of the far-right League in southern Italy have provoked fury after producing an explicitly sexist leaflet to mark International Womens Day.
It was intended to be a dedication to women, but the pamphlet instead takes aim at those who offend womens dignity by impeding their natural role of supporting life and the family.
It contains a list of six ways in which it says what it calls the natural role of women is harmed, including by those who claim self-determination that arouses rancorous attitudes towards men or who support laws that would allow same-sex couples to declare themselves as a childs parents on some official forms.
The leaflet ends with a message saying that women have a great social mission to fulfil in regards the survival of our nation.
Members of the opposition centre-left Democratic party said the flyer aimed to take women back to the Middle Ages.
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