The Verkhovna Rada is concerned about the fight against sexism in advertising
Ukraine is full of sexist advertising.
People's Deputy Irina Suslova stated this at a briefing in the Verkhovna Rada,
Correspondent of PolitNavigator reports.
“The naked body of a woman in visual images, the interpretation of a woman not as an individual, but as an object that can be disposed of, an emphasis on the dominance of a man over a woman, the reproduction of gender stereotypes - all this can be classified as sexism,” she said.
The coordinator of the project of the NGO "League for the Defense of Women's Rights" "Harmony of Equals" Yulia Makarova said that in five months their organization received 185 signals about the presence of sexist advertising and showed samples of it. She also reported that her organization sent 280 complaints to government commissioners.
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