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FEBRUARY 2006 CAUCASIA MAGAZINE - GENDER &
DISCRIMINATION
*Georgia
*World
*Armenia
*Kazakhstan
*Belarus
*Russia
*Kyrgyzstan
*Tajikistan
Excerpt from Article from Russia:
"IT TOOK ACTIVISTS FIVE DAYS TO REMOVE SEXIST
BANNER"
"In Murmansk, on the Five Corners Square, there appeared an
advertisement of a joint action of Investsberbank and Beethoven, the home
equipment store. A sexy half-naked lady, displayed in the advertisement,
said: "We give it to anyone' (and the title of an advertised bank
credit).
The Coordination Council of Kola Peninsula Women's Congress
addressed the Beethoven Store administration requesting the removal of the
sexist banner. The company seemed not to understand the claims of the Congress.
Answering the phone call, the head of advertisement said she saw nothing
reprehensible in the advertisement, and that the problem was about the 'morbid
imagination of the women's movement.'
On February 7, 2006, the Coordination Council of Kola
Peninsula Women's Congress made a decision to follow their appeal to the court.
Late on February 7, the Congress E-Mailed gender experts, journalists, and
leaders of women's organizations from different regions of Russia, requesting
help and consultation. In the morning of February 8, the Congress received more
than a dozen detailed replies and recommendations from Moscow, St. Petersburg,
and other Russian cities.
On the same day, the Kola Congress received a phone call from
Tatyana Kalyasnikova, the journalist of Polyarnaya Pravda, the oldest newspaper
in Murmansk. The scandalous advertisement in the center of Murmansk had also
shocked many of the newspaper's journalists.
On February 9, the newspaper's most popular edition published
a story entitled, 'Why do the solid companies need the shocking
advertisement?'
One more day passed, and the sexist banner was
removed!"
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