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Thu Mar 7, 2019, 08:27 AM Mar 2019

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 Women’s Day.

It was intended to be a dedication to women, but the pamphlet instead takes aim at those who “offend women’s 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 child’s 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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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/07/italian-far-right-alliance-members-produce-sexist-leaflet-for-international-womens-day
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