Cherry Hopton has been suspended from her post at Angus College in the UK for rightly objecting to an event planned at the college to ‘commemorate’ International Women’s Day. The college decided to celebrate IWD by giving all the women a red rose by a ‘man in a grey suit’ because, as the posters initially stated, ‘all women love a bit of romance.’
The promotion of gender inequality through archaic practices that reinforce, rather than challenge, sexual stereotypes, is not acceptable on any day, but especially not on International Women’s Day, a global, political and feminist event.
Please sign the petition in support of Cherry Hopton!
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/reinstate-cherry-hopton.html
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How not to celebrate International Women's Day
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