Quote:A push to include female symbols on traffic signals in an Australian city to fight discrimination against women has left public opinion divided.

In an effort to fight “unconscious bias” and “stereotypes” in Melbourne, ten skirt-clad traffic icons were being installed on Tuesday, the day before International Women’s Day.

The campaign was funded by the Committee for Melbourne, a lobby group of more than 120 business and community groups.

Committee chief executive Martine Letts said that the 12-month trial is meant to invite reflection on gender inequalities and fight stereotypes that “influence daily decisions and attitudes.”

“These symbols are a practical and meaningful way to demonstrate that in fact 50 per cent of our population is female and should therefore also be represented at traffic lights” she told the ABC.

She said the ultimate goal of the campaign was to have a “one-to-one” representation of male and female pedestrians icons across the state of Victoria.

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Where are the ones for the LGBTQ community? They should not be gender biased!

(03-08-2017 01:11 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:A push to include female symbols on traffic signals in an Australian city to fight discrimination against women has left public opinion divided.

In an effort to fight “unconscious bias” and “stereotypes” in Melbourne, ten skirt-clad traffic icons were being installed on Tuesday, the day before International Women’s Day.

The campaign was funded by the Committee for Melbourne, a lobby group of more than 120 business and community groups.

Committee chief executive Martine Letts said that the 12-month trial is meant to invite reflection on gender inequalities and fight stereotypes that “influence daily decisions and attitudes.”

“These symbols are a practical and meaningful way to demonstrate that in fact 50 per cent of our population is female and should therefore also be represented at traffic lights” she told the ABC.

She said the ultimate goal of the campaign was to have a “one-to-one” representation of male and female pedestrians icons across the state of Victoria.

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Where are the ones for the LGBTQ community? They should not be gender biased!

Not surprised this comes from one of the Metropolitan areas - seems that people in large cities don't have anything better to do with their time that complain about stupid stuff.

Since when is it a big deal how a picture of a pedestrian is defined? Really??

It's normally a pictorial representation of a human at a crosswalk, etc. Does it really matter?

I think that given that few women wear dresses anymore, they should keep the exact same picture and just hand write "woman" below it........

Trying to fight gender inequality by putting up images with SKIRTS?

LOL! I love the passive/aggressive stuff!

I don't know but I've never felt slighted because of gender biases favoring the female sex. Woop-dee-do.

I'll bet Sunny Brook Tommie is celebrating his womanhood at last. To bad now that he's wearing dresses women are wearing pants, ahem, some of them still wear pantsuits.

Stupid waste of taxpayer money.

Why not just make them all say walk instead?

So to combat unconscious bias and promote gender equality the took what could have been just a person crossing the street and gendered them in a way that presumes women wear dresses..

Interesting.

(03-09-2017 12:14 AM)DexterDevil Wrote:  Why not just make them all say walk instead?

You bigot... Why do you want people who are not literate in the english language to die.

(03-09-2017 12:47 AM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  

(03-09-2017 12:14 AM)DexterDevil Wrote:  Why not just make them all say walk instead?

You bigot... Why do you want people who are not literate in the english language to die.

You're going to expose my secret plan.

(03-08-2017 01:11 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:A push to include female symbols on traffic signals in an Australian city to fight discrimination against women has left public opinion divided.

In an effort to fight “unconscious bias” and “stereotypes” in Melbourne, ten skirt-clad traffic icons were being installed on Tuesday, the day before International Women’s Day.

The campaign was funded by the Committee for Melbourne, a lobby group of more than 120 business and community groups.

Committee chief executive Martine Letts said that the 12-month trial is meant to invite reflection on gender inequalities and fight stereotypes that “influence daily decisions and attitudes.”

“These symbols are a practical and meaningful way to demonstrate that in fact 50 per cent of our population is female and should therefore also be represented at traffic lights” she told the ABC.

She said the ultimate goal of the campaign was to have a “one-to-one” representation of male and female pedestrians icons across the state of Victoria.

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Where are the ones for the LGBTQ community? They should not be gender biased!

London

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/09/19/lgb...rmanently/

And about 20 other cities.